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Lesley Jenike

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The Kent State University Press

Date de parution

30 janvier 2017

EAN13

9781631012983

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English

"In Punctum:, Lesley Jenike's new collection, she writes, 'It's our language: what can we call a thing that is and is not.' These poems are haunted by a 'non-child,' a child who was not to be born, and with it, a life the speaker was not to live. Absence itself becomes a nearly tangible presence. I don't know how Jenike does it-breaks your heart and makes you want more-but I can't remember the last time I read poems as smart and sure and devastatingly precise in their language, imagery, and feeling. In a poem about a fateful ultrasound, one that reveals no fetal heartbeat, she writes, 'the doctor calls it "practice," snapping off // the screen, tearing up the spit-out photograph. / "Next time," she says, "it'll be the real thing."' Mark my words: these poems are-and this poet is-the real thing. Punctum: is a remarkable accomplishment."-Maggie Smith"Riffing on Barthes's notion of punctum, his 'third meaning,' and its other definitions-tear duct, small point, strike-through-Jenike creates, with her Punctum:, a love song to the lost child, to the living child, to the ineffable nonexistent, and to the abundant existent that takes my breath away. This collection's fulsome lines and literary touchstones balance precariously, sometimes archaically, always brilliantly, with the gravities of the physical body and the ruins of our 21stcentury planet to give us something new, rare, and important."-Kathy Fagan

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Publié par

The Kent State University Press

Date de parution

30 janvier 2017

EAN13

9781631012983

Langue

English

PUNCTUM:
Wick Poetry Chapbook Series Five
Catherine Wing, Editor
Poppy Seeds · Allison Davis
Here Both Sweeter · Daniel Carter
I Left My Wings on a Chair · Karen Schubert
Determinant · Alex Fabrizio
Local Fauna · Brian Brodeur
Little Nest · Diana Lueptow
Seven Boxes for the Country After · Janet McAdams
Punctum: · Lesley Jenike
PUNCTUM:
Poems by Lesley Jenike
The Kent State University Press
Kent, Ohio
© 2017 by Lesley Jenike
All rights reserved
ISBN 978-1-60635-333-2
Manufactured in the United States of America
The Wick Poetry Series is sponsored in part by the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University.
Cataloging information for this title is available at the Library of Congress.
21 20 19 18 17 5 4 3 2 1
“What I hide by my language my body utters.”
—Roland Barthes
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
The Canon
Practice
Proofs
Walhalla
The First Appeal
Realty
Twelfth Night
The Mirror Stage
The Hawk
Splitting the Lark
A Mother Gives Birth to Someone Who Won’t Last
“The Sun Is God”
St. Francis and the Newborn
The Beast
Reading Whitman Postpartum
Punctum

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