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\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026#147;Dimitrov is a vital new energy in American poetry.\u0026#8221;\u0026#151;\u003cI\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026#147;Truth-telling, raw, fierce with feeling.\u0026#8221;\u0026#151;\u003cI\u003eBrenda Shaughnessy\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u0026#147;Dimitrov can sound at once hip and naive, devoted to the sincerities that other sorts of poets reject or obscure.\u0026#8221;\u0026#151;\u003cI\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cI\u003eTogether and by Ourselves, \u003c/I\u003eAlex Dimitrov\u0026#8217;s second book of poems, takes on broad existential questions and the reality of our current moment: being seemingly connected to one another, yet emotionally alone. Through a collage aesthetic and a multiplicity of voices, these poems take us from coast to coast, New York to LA, and toward uneasy questions about intimacy, love, death, and the human spirit. Dimitrov critiques America\u0026#8217;s long-lasting obsessions with money, celebrity, and escapism\u0026#151;whether in our personal, professional, or family lives. What defines a life? Is love ever enough? Who are we when together and who are we by ourselves? These questions echo throughout the poems, which resist easy answers. The voice is both heartfelt and skeptical, bruised yet playful, and always deeply introspective.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom \"Water\"\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is aging exactly?\u003cBR\u003eThere are new jobs and people\u003cBR\u003eand someone dies before noon every day.\u003cBR\u003eI am swimming and swimming\u0026#133;in May or an ocean,\u003cBR\u003eI don\u0026#8217;t see the reason. \u0026#147;But that\u0026#8217;s unimportant,\u0026#8221; you said.\u003cBR\u003e\u0026#147;Just keep doing it over again until one day you can\u0026#8217;t.\u0026#8221;\u003cBR\u003eSpring excites us and we know what it is every time.\u003cBR\u003eThe minutes in meetings are life\u0026#8217;s most undistinguished;\u003cBR\u003ethat\u0026#8217;s obvious. And what\u0026#8217;s obvious makes us all fools\u003cBR\u003ethen fast friends.\u003cBR\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlex Dimitrov is the author of \u003cI\u003eTogether and by Ourselves\u003c/I\u003e (Copper Canyon Press, 2017), \u003cI\u003eBegging for It\u003c/I\u003e (Four Way Books, 2013), and the online chapbook \u003cI\u003eAmerican Boys\u003c/I\u003e (Floating Wolf Quarterly, 2012). He is the recipient of the Stanley Kunitz Prize from the \u003cI\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c/I\u003e and a Pushcart Prize. His poems have been published in \u003cI\u003ePoetry, The Yale Review, Kenyon Review, Slate, Tin House, Boston Review, \u003c/I\u003e and the \u003cI\u003eAmerican Poetry Review. \u003c/I\u003e He is the Senior Content Editor at the Academy of American Poets where he edits the popular online series Poem-a-Day and \u003cI\u003eAmerican Poets\u003c/I\u003e magazine. He has taught creative writing at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Marymount Manhattan College, Bennington College, and lives in New York City.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003c/div\u003e |
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