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The Stranger You Are

Tía Chucha, Sylmar, CA, 2022

Wronsky’s poems and Gronk’s drawings are equally grounded in poetic imagery. Wronsky mixes vernacular diction, or spoken language, with a more formal style in a way that is entirely unique; Gronk’s signature style alludes to both street art and classical art. Both are committed to making memorable work that surprises and delights, that sharpens and feeds our everyday lives as well as our deepest selves.

Selected Books by Gail Wronsky

  • The Stranger You Are: Art by Gronk, Poems by Gail Wronsky (2022)

    Wronsky’s poems and Gronk’s drawings are equally grounded in poetic imagery. Wronsky mixes vernacular diction, or spoken language, with a more formal style in a way that is entirely unique; Gronk’s signature style alludes to both street art and classical art. Both are committed to making memorable work that surprises and delights, that sharpens and feeds our everyday lives as well as our deepest selves. More about the book

    Art & Poetry, Paperback, 160 pages, 6 x 9 in, ISBN-13 978-1882688623

  • Under the Capsized Boat We Fly, New & Selected Poems (2021)

    White Pine Press
    Buffalo, NY

    This book collects over four decades of work by this unique and imaginative poet. Wronsky's poems, informed by her reading of classical texts as well as contemporary poetics, explore feminism, environmentalism, and mortality in language that is both multi-layered and musical. At times dark and at times humorous, her poems speak to our strengths as well as our frailties. More about this book & read selected poems

    Poetry, Paperback, 150 pp, 6 x 9 in, ISBN-13 978-1945680458

  • Imperfect Pastorals (2017)

    What Books Press
    Los Angeles

    A book of contemporary American poetry that references Virgil. Read selected poems

    Poetry, Paperback, 82 pp, 6 x 9 in, ISBN-13 978-1532341397

  • Tomorrow You’ll Be One of Us: Sci Fi Poems (2013)

    Coauthored with Chuck Rosenthal & Gronk

    What Books Press
    Los Angeles

    A collection of illustrated poems composed entirely of dialogue from sci-fi movies of the 50s and early 60s.

    Poetry/Illustration, Hardcover, 167 pp, 6.14 x 9.21 in, ISBN-13 978-0988924802

  • So Quick Bright Things (2010)

    Bilingual Edition Translated into Spanish by Alicia Partnoy

    What Books Press
    Los Angeles

    Characters from A Midsummer Night's Dream float into and out of contemporary landscapes contemplating love, art, language, and otherness in mischievous and serious ways. Read selected poems

    Poetry, Paperback, 165pp, 6 x 9 in, ISBN-13 978-0984578207

  • Bling & Fringe: The L.A. Poems (2009)

    Coauthored with Molly Bendall

    What Books Press
    Los Angeles

    “In these intensely female, lively luscious songs it's Colette meets Beyonce meets Lil Mama meets Cixous and in comes Kristeva meets Molly Bendall meets Gail Wronsky, and therefore streams continual surprise—eros kisses big bad boogie man theory and ‘word as noose’ slang jumpstarts high-flown lingo and it's all so playful and yet deadly serious—how these poems issue from one urgent, collective, Medusa-like mouth, one it's high time is heard.” —Gillian Conoley

    Poetry, Paperback, 52pp, 6 x 9 in, ISBN-13 978-0982354216

  • Blue Shadow Behind Everything Dazzling: Poems from India (2009)

    The Hollyridge Press Chapbook Series
    Venice, CA

    Poems of India in all their attention to sensuous detail, vibrancy and celebration. Read selected poems

    Poetry, Paperback, 52pp, 6 x 9 in, ISBN-13 978-0979958854

  • Poems for Infidels (2004)

    Red Hen Press
    Los Angeles

    "Any other poet with Gail Wronsky’s gift for sheer gorgeousness―for the sensuous image, for shapeliness, for the ever-unfolding ever-mobile vocal line―would call it a day. But Wronsky’s intellect is of a larger order: restless, irreverent, wittily attuned to the force-fields of cultural fashion and to the depths those fashions bespeak." ―Linda Gregerson Read selected poems

    Poetry, Paperback, 80 pp, 6 x 9 in, ISBN-13 978-1597090018

  • Dying For Beauty (2000)

    Copper Canyon Press
    Port Townsend, WA

    “Whether paying tribute to literary icons such as Walt Whitman and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, or examining global and cultural degradation, Wronsky proves to be a poet of sharp wit and endearing wonder. The crowning jewel of Dying for Beauty is ‘Desdemona,’ a nearly book-length lyric that alternates between meditation and dramatization, between discourse and incantation. “ —The Boston Review

    Poetry, Paperback, 88 pp, 6 x 9 in, ISBN-13 978-1556591358