· Swan Feast is a violent autobiography, a girlface bleaching out of the headdress that adorns her / that feeds on her, a text that is both body / corpse, a speaking that acknowledges civilization / dissolves civilization into stone killing / into a stone that can kill the temple, a bursting / . · Swan Feast is the banquet of a fallen goddess, told through the trance of an autobiographical duckling girl. The transforming voice is visionary. The transforming voice is visionary. She connects the discovery of the Venus of Willendorf to the discovery of oil in the Middle East, implicating imperial industrialism to the passing away of Venus into faded memory and historical . · Swan Feast is an appropriately enigmatic title for a book in which everything—rage, joy, grief, fear, pain, hope—will happen to you, and more than once, and in more than one way. This gamut of intense emotion is probed by the speaker in relation to two implicit, guiding questions: What is beauty (epitomized by a swan)? and What is hunger?
Natalie Eilbert is the author of Indictus (Noemi Press, ), winner of Noemi Press's Poetry Prize, and Swan Feast (Bloof Books, ). She was the recipient of the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellowship at University of Wisconsin-Madison and is the founding editor of The Atlas www.doorway.ru teaches in the English program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and lives in Madison. Swan Feast is the banquet of a fallen goddess, told through the trance of an autobiographical duckling girl. Natalie Eilbert Interviews Valeria Luiselli, The Atlas Review, May An Interview with Natalie Eilbert, Editor-in-Chief of The Atlas Review, Washington Square Review, January , Conducted by ONSQ Editors Reviewing Others. Natalie Eilbert is the author of the debut poetry collection, Swan Feast (Bloof Books, ). She is also the author of two chapbooks,Conversation with the Stone Wife (Bloof Books, ) and And I Shall Again Be Virtuous (Big Lucks Books, ). Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The New Yorker, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, Poem-a-Day, Guernica, and many other journals.
Swan Feast is a violent autobiography, a girlface bleaching out of the headdress that adorns her / that feeds on her, a text that is both body / corpse, a speaking that acknowledges civilization / dissolves civilization into stone killing / into a stone that can kill the temple, a bursting / riot of mud / form / sculpture. Swan Feast is the banquet of a fallen goddess, told through the trance of an autobiographical duckling girl. Time, and the world, want the body, and are coming for it. Natalie Eilbert tears the body down, and makes time and the world go looking for something else to want. Swan Feast is both a book of poems and a pre-emptive strike. Swan Feast is the banquet of a fallen goddess, told through the trance of an autobiographical duckling girl. The transforming voice is visionary. The transforming voice is visionary. She connects the discovery of the Venus of Willendorf to the discovery of oil in the Middle East, implicating imperial industrialism to the passing away of Venus into faded memory and historical anorexia.
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