Theory of Orange
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Don't forget your bucket.
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32 years old
Yonkers, New York
United States
Last Login: 3/30/2009
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| Music | Brave Combo, Joni Mitchell, Elvis Costello, Jenny Owen Youngs, my dad singing "I feel pretty" | | Movies | Hal Hartley, Wong Kar Wei, Miranda July, etc. | | Books | If you'd like my book, Theory of Orange, to be your favorite book step one is to buy a copy. You can find it at www.spdbooks.org or from the box of books under my bed. |
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CAMP SWEENEY!, Camp Sweeney Alums of the 90's, Plano Senior High Grads - Go Cats!, Queer Colby, Brave Combo Best Band Ever
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| Status: | Married | | Orientation: | Lesbian | | Hometown: | Dallas, Texas | | Religion: | Jewish | | Zodiac Sign: | Aquarius | | Education: | Grad / professional school | | Occupation: | double knotter and dog walker |
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Theory of Orange's Schools
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Sarah Lawrence College
Bronxville, NEW YORK
Graduated: 2003
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
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2001 to 2003 |
Colby College
Waterville, MAINE
Graduated: 1999
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Clubs: The Bridge
Colby Improv
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1995 to 1999 |
Plano Sr H S
Plano, TEXAS
Graduated: 1995
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
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1993 to 1995 |
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About me:
Rachel M. Simon writes:"One can live for years not knowing te teaspoon is inaccurate." And she's right. Her book is filled with a kind of knowledge for the 21st-century: slippage, tilt and veil. But despite Simon's keen observations of the inaccurate (and by extension the painfully accurate), there is something luminous, somethign comforting in the gargantuan heart and consoling mind behind them. It's as if she's saying, "Yes, it's strange and it hurts, but let's do it together."
-Ross Gay
"Sometimes in floods, sometimes in careful ministrations, Theory of Orange salvages for us consolations where it can, in the humor of mock-authority and in the humility of grief and hope. In a language that ranges from the securities of instruction and structural regularity to plaint and improvisation, where the nightmarish vies with slapstick, Rachel Simon's poetry springs from a truly charitable spirit of revelation."
--Dean Young
"In Theory of Orange, Rachel Simon aims her clear-eyed gaze at life’s odd, irresolvable circumstances and “tells it slant.” Simon’s poems sparkle with freshness, verve, and above all, humanity. Understated wit, wry intelligence, and honed language are hallmarks of this decidedly original first collection."
--Joan Larkin
"Improvisation" is a quintessential Poem of Our Moment: fast moving and declarative, wobbling on the balance beam between associative and dissociative, somewhat absurdist, and, indeed, cerebral. Much talent and skill are evident in it's making, in its pacing and management of gaps, the hints and sound bites which keep the reader reaching forward for the lynchpin of coherence. One admirable aspect of the poem is the way it seems capable of incorporating anything... even as the poem implies a world without sequence, the poem itself has no consequence, no center of gravity, no body, no assertion of emotional value.
Poems like "Improvisation" showcase personality in the persona of their chatty, free-associating, nutty smart narrators. It is a self that does not stand still, that implies a kind of spectral, anxious insubstantiality. ... Speed, wit, and absurdity are its attractive qualities.
--Tony Hoagland in POETRY
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Who I'd like to meet:
Carl Finch, a full time job
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