The sack of Rome, The siege of Florence. The lights twinkle pink in Fiesole. Pink furls, pink buds. Wet pink veiny hearts in spring. Pink can mean so many things. Sylvie Baumgartel's Pink moves from the shadow of the Ponte Vecchio to a mission church in Santa Fe, from Daily Mail reports to a photograph of a girl from Tierra del Fuego, from a grandmother's advice ("Don't go to Smith and don't get fat") to legs wrapped around "a man who calls me cake." Baumgartel, a poet of fierce, intimate, wry language, delivers a second collection about art, history, violence, bodies, fear, pain, reckoning, and transcendence. The poems travel back to the historical, linguistic, and emotional sources of things while surging forward with a stirring momentum, creating a whirlwind of birth and destruction.

A sharp, visceral new collection of poems that touches on art, history, sex, bodies, language, and the color pink.

About the Author
Sylvie Baumgartel is the author of Song of Songs (FSG, 2019), her debut book of poems. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, Subtropics, Raritan, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, the PEN Poetry series, and The Unprofessionals: New American Writing from "The Paris Review." She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.


Book Information
ISBN 9780374604868
Author Sylvie Baumgartel
Format Paperback
Page Count 80
Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Weight(grams) 104g
Dimensions(mm) 203mm * 129mm * 8mm