Poetry. "IN A GLASS BOX is a title that might suggest poems framed, contained, and fragile. But the way they follow vowels relentlessly to revelations grounded in the five senses is so robust, no reader will mistake them for dream poems or shadowboxes or, as is au courant in female experimental poetry, a wish fulfillment of poetess as princess with unicorns and tapestries. This book is the opposite of pretty: it is sublime and fiery."—Ange Mlinko

Author City: BROOKLYN, NY USA

Brenda Iijima is the author of IF NOT METAMORPHIC (Ahsahta Press, 2010), REVV. YOU'LL—UTION (Displaced Press, 2009) SUBSISTENCE EQUIPMENT (Faux Press, 2008) ANIMATE, INANIMATE AIMS (Litmus, 2007) and AROUND SEA (O Books, 2004). She edited the collection ECO LANGUAGE READER (Nightboat Books, 2010) and is currently the editor of Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. She is the art editor at Boog City—a newspaper and online source for artists and poets in East Village—and she is a visual artist. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches at Cooper Union.