Epic poems need epic heroes—divine, fantastic creatures, whose larger than life exploits project the spirit of an age. Homer’s had Odysseus, Dante’s Beatrice, and now David Breskin has bequeathed our celebrity-obsessed era its very own form-fitting “Supermodel.” Loosely inspired by the story of tsunami survivor Petra Nemcova, the heroine of Supermodel is an outsized force of nature: fiercely competitive, intellectually curious, emotionally wounded, resolutely moral, and of course, ravishingly attractive — a globe-trotting innocent who exudes sexuality in every way...except the most obvious. As she literally clings to life, her story is revealed in a series of flashbacks which wing us from Middle East to Wild West, desert to tropics, country to city — all vividly described, in potent couplets, as paradises found and lost. Breskin peppers this dark comedy with unsettling wordplay, shrewd social commentary, and a reporter’s acute eye for the facts of life: his virtuosic writing matches the breathless pace and rich complexity of his heroine's travails. Even as Breskin relates his supermodel’s tale, his story is matched by strangely salient scrolls of ‘found poetry’ culled from web sites. This new feat of literary dovetailing creates a sublime surprise: the first epic poem of the Internet Age.
R. White 1973, while studying architecture, he went to Bali and made the island
his new home Since then he has designed more than 600 parks and gardens
start with a large fortune," bitterly, and by the time she was ten, her mom was out
hunting for her first real job and a man to boot: all over the world His company,
P.T. Wijaya Tribwana International has more than 500 employees In realising the
project philosophy of creating green spaces for a gorgeous thing like Ann, even
with ...