Anybody - by Ari Banias (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Ari Banias is one of the best living poets, and this book in your hands is our proof. <em>Anybody</em> is the courage of a poet who trusts the strength of poetry to make room in our world for everybody." --CAConrad<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In <em>Anybody</em>, Ari Banias takes up questions of recognition and belonging: how boundaries are drawn and managed, the ways <em>he</em> and <em>she</em>, <em>us</em> and <em>them</em>, <em>here</em> and <em>elsewhere</em> are kept separate, and at what cost identities and selves are forged. Moving through iconic and imagined landscapes, <em>Anybody</em> confronts the strangeness of being alive and of being a restlessly gendered, queer, emotive body. Wherever the poet turns--the cruising spaces of Fire Island, a city lake, a Greek island, a bodega-turned-coffee-shop--he finds the charge of boundedness and signification, the implications of what it means to be a <em>this</em> instead of a <em>that</em>. Witty, tender, and original, these poems pierce the constructs that define our lives.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>[Anybody] is the portrait of an inner life that asks itself steadily how anybody or any body can be said to be anybody--girl, boy, fox...This charming, chattering young self is preoccupied with...poignant absences.-- "American Poets"<br><br>Ari Banias's <em>Anybody</em> is a book that acknowledges a boundary, escapes it, and redefines it.-- "Lambda Literary"<br><br>Banias poses questions of identity and belonging in his striking debut...In lines alternately straight-talking and philosophical, Banias asks what it means to be 'a white dude' in our country, to be educated and privileged but still 'a fake man.'-- "San Francisco Chronicle"<br><br>Born late in the twentieth century, tutored under the twin suns of Frank O'Hara and Guillaume Apollinaire, vexed by 'this set of meanings on my body, ' Ari Banias is a poet for this hour--bewildered, hopeful, and cracklingly alive, a citizen of the possible. <em>How many utopias? (keep imagining them)</em>.--Mark Doty<br><br>Here is <em>Anybody</em> with its syntax of rupture and suture, its restless questions and metaphysical balloons. What a thrilling, original, generous, openhearted book. A book we have waited for, whoever we are.--Donna Masini<br><br>I'm so impressed by the range and grace of Ari Banias' <em>Anybody</em>. It's discursive, straight-talking, and thinky, then ghostlike, elliptical, and mischievous. It takes its time, then rushes; it's quiet, then bold; it's steeped in sociality, then ringing with solitude. I happily recognize its arrival, even if I know (as does Banias, quoting Berlant) that recognition may be but the misrecognition we can bear.--Maggie Nelson<br><br>One of the most unique voices I have ever heard in a first book...through all its interstates of narrative, candor, and image, [<em>Anybody</em>] presents an intersectional cross section of the American lyric, providing the reader with many occasions for joy, for remembering, for 'time to quiet down.'-- "Kenyon Review"<br><br>This collection takes quick-witted brushstrokes as it tackles societal boundaries, then slows down to meditate on the minutiae of the spaces that define us and the inaccessible spaces, too...[<em>Anybody</em>] can be read in one existential sitting, but it begs to be reread many times over.-- "Chicago Review of Books"<br><br>To speak any truth that can resonate beyond the particularities of their position, a poet must understand every particularity of that position, and all the forces that intersect to determine their view of the world. Banias is such a poet. It is questions about what constitutes the lyric and the universal...that drive his debut collection forward, and his readers into a more expansive, fully considered future.-- "Fanzine"<br><br>Ari Banias has written one of the finest first books (OK, any book!) that I've ever read...These poems stake a claim on the future: they give us a poet who understands to the bone how syntax and line and music embody emotion, and how the integrity of the spirit is the maker's integrity.--Tom Sleigh<br>
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