Wolfman Librarian
Filip Marinovich
Poetry | $16 $14
Spring 2015
Buy"Marinovich is a queer poet for the ages."
Excerpt
I walked down Wall Street tonight and it felt
as if someone was walking inside me another person taking steps for meMy executioner told me I couldn't write September Eleventh poetryI'm breathing again the World will become a New CityPeople will hug in the street ElizabethanlyWe will invent a new language togetherQueen Elizabeth will return from her covenCovent Garden and all will sing operaon the steps of the Federal Building joining handsClose ˆAbout the Author
Filip Marinovich is the author of Zero Readership and And If You Don't Go Crazy I'll Meet You Here Tomorrow, both published by Ugly Duckling Presse. In Fall 2011 Filip served as librarian at The People's Library at Occupy Wall Street and worked with Stephen Boyer as co-compiler of "The Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology" as well as performing in the weekly Poetry Assembly. Wolfman Librarian is his third book of poetry.
Book Details
Trade PaperbackPerfect-bound. 104 pp, 6 x 9 in.
ISBN 978-1-937027-46-9
Publication Date: April 1, 2015
Distribution: SPD
Funding: the National Endowment for the Arts, the Department of Cultural Affairs for New York City, and the New York State Council on the Arts.
- 11.09.15 | Filip Marinovich's Wolfman Librarian profiled by Michael del Castillo in Literary Manhattan
- 07.27.15 | Filip Marinovich's Wolfman Librarian reviewed in the Boston Review
- 07.01.15 | Wolfman Librarian reviewed by CAConrad in Harriet
- 05.06.15 | Wolfman Librarian by Filip Marinovich reviewed on NewPages.com
News and Reviews
Advance Praise
A philotextual dingaround densely unclogged from these our so very strung states. Viewed from edgeling of fledge hook, traipsed down to stockwash of the final semesters, when flat comes to sharp we'll need this stash manual unbound from all horizons. Take it!—Clark Coolidge
Poet Marinovich is never at a loss for words. An ear that won't quit. Faster than a speeding bulletin board, able to leap traditions with a single bound—he's a bird, he's a plane, he's about as open as you can get.—Joanne Kyger
Filip Marinovich's Wolfman Librarian creates a language, which, through surreptitious weaving, unclaims opacity, unclaims its power to contaminate, snaking its way through the quotidian amalgam.—Will Alexander
As if in cheerful séance with Ginsberg, O’Hara, and other local ghosts, the wild Filip Marinovich mouths off with such sublime energy and such associational genius (his imagination divinely unmanacled) that I joyfully proclaim him not merely our revolutionary librarian but our visionary laureate. Bravo to Marinovich, master of eruption, learnéd detour, and focused vernacular flow!—Wayne Koestenbaum
At bay, at the door, but on the other hand this is us at war, our amplified howl, din our constant study, Filip Marinovich our glissed-out guide. It's fucked up that how fucked up it is is this much fun.—Fred Moten