Poetry. "Jen Bervin has reimagined Shakespeare as our true contemporary. Her little poems sing"--Paul Auster. In NETS, poet and artist Jen Bervin strips Shakespeare's sonnets "bare to the nets," chiseling away at the familiar lines to reveal surprising new poems, while pointing obliquely at the unavoidably intertextual ground of writing. Using visual compositional strategies as effectively as verbal ones, Bervin allows the discarded text to remain on the page as a ghostly presence, while she highlights the marginal line-numbers that allude to the sonnets' canonization.

Author Hometown: NEW YORK, NY USA



About the author: Poet and visual artist Jen Bervin's large-scale sewn composites of Dickinson's fascicle marks and other works have been exhibited in the US, Canada, and France. Her recent books include The Desert (Granary Books 2008), and a non-breaking space (UDP 2005). More work has been featured recently in Esopus and Double Change. Jen Bervin is a 2007 Poetry Fellowship recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts and has received fellowships in art and writing from The MacDowell Colony, Centrum Arts, and The Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. She is a contributing editor for JUBILAT and lives in New York.

Reviews:
http://jacketmagazine.com/25/metr-berv.html
http://www.webdelsol.com/Double_Room/issue_five/Jen_Bervin.html
http://www.villagevoice.com/2004-05-25/books/the-connections-a-selective-history-of-instant-inspiration/
http://www.jenbervin.com/
http://www.chicagopostmodernpoetry.com/jbervin.htm
http://galatearesurrection7.blogspot.com/2007/08/nets-by-jen-bervin.html