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'Ecstasy stands out for its brutal examination of the transience of Eros ... Campy and fun' Guardian

In Ecstasy, Alex Dimitrov embraces a life on the edge in New York and the finely wrought poetry that can come out of it.

He explores sex, drugs, parties, pleasure, and God in the 2020s, and looks back to a coming-of-age in the 1990s that still informs who his generation is and will be. His unabashed and drivingly musical poems are a call against repression, a rebuke of cultural norms and shame, and a celebration of human authenticity - even if to live under such philosophies is dangerous.

In 'Today I Love Being Alive', we find the poet naked in his kitchen, eating a banana and obsessed with a new lover, declaring 'I don't care about being remembered. / I care about . . . Strong men. Beautiful sentences. Italian leather'; in 'Poppers', he stands lightheaded in the bathroom at a bar, 'thinking of what to do / with the rest of my life', and issuing a warning to himself and us: 'Poetry / is not a self-help book.'

Dimitrov is an iconographer of contemporary life, able to pin profound and timeless meaning to a fleeting encounter in the street. Ecstasy also engages with the poet's Christian upbringing, interrogating faith as both an enemy and valve of catharsis, and a bedfellow of what this book celebrates and courts: profound human ecstasy.

'A rollicking paean to pleasure, an ode to realness and resilience ... Raw and honest and deeply personal' New York Times

'Dimitrov is that rarest of creatures, a true poet and a truly contemporary poet. Thank god he's here' Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours

*A most anticipated queer book for Spring 2025 in Electric Literature*

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v němčině Belletristik Lyrik, Dramatik

• Plný název: Ecstasy
• Autor: Alex Dimitrov
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 112
• EAN: 9781787335332
• ISBN: 178733533X
• ID: 46265228
• Nakladatelství: Vintage Publishing
• Hmotnost: 228 g
• Rozměry: 222 × 138 mm
• Datum vydání: 17. April 2025

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