Maniac

Guilia Bencivenga

• Title

  Maniac

• Date 2019
• Publisher New York, NY: Inpatient Press
• Description 36 p; 4.4 in
• Language English
• Collections Permanent Collection
• Summary

  “At my best, I’m deranged and flirty,” writes Giulia Bencivenga, “at my worst, horny and psychotic.” Lines like this pop up all over Bencivenga’s chapbook Maniac. But what is a maniac, anyway? A woman obsessed, crazed by lyric, a woman willing to get inside a feeling or idea and shake it to its core. “Our ruins,” she says, “are piles of trash / as big as Texas! / Men can rot / men can rot.” I love this maniac born of the ruin, so charged with negation and longing. The maniac wants more from this disappointing world and I want more of her poems!
  ~ Sandra Simonds, 2019

• Tags American poetry -- 21st century, Chapbook