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"In the poems of Jennifer Husk the world is a membrane words bounce against and poke into, skating on the scrim then delving below in quick sharp digs of fragment, image, and gut-punch. This work is 'river dialogue' and 'glare on the surface' all at once, achieving experiment, a sustained rhetoric, intimacy and political weight in one go. If Van Gogh graffitied 'The Starry Night' on an urban wall then broke it apart with a mallet, you might get at something resembling the rough and precious texture of a Husk poem. Her register is horizon-wide & she jumps its length in a blink: the same stanza holds 'rooms of dust' and 'harmony, ' then enjoins us to 'hack the map' and 'tag it city-wide.' This is a skateboard train anyone wishing to journey the sidewalk, desert, star, and cerebellum should hop on, presto." --Ana Bozičevic "Stars of the Night Commute" (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2010)

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780976014249
  • ISBN-10: 0976014246
  • Publisher: Upset Press
  • Publish Date: April 2012
  • Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.26 pounds
  • Page Count: 80

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