Poetry. This sophomore effort from Jenks expands on the disjointed lyrics of ON THE CAVE YOU LIVE IN by moving further into equal mixtures of social critique and sonic pattern. "Jenks's poetry achieves its textual striation on the level of tone by shifting between narrative and sound-based passages, as well as between stretched-out lyrical sections and jagged, cutting lines"—Joel Bettridge.

Author City: CHICAGO, IL USA

Philip Jenks was born in the south, grew up in Appalachia and came alive in the Pacific Northwest. Now he's haunting Chicago. His poems have appeared in Chicago Review, Typo, FENCE, Cultural Society, H_NGM_N, Canarium, LVNG, and elsewhere. He has published two full-length volumes of poetry, ON THE CAVE YOU LIVE IN (Flood Editions, 2002) and MY FIRST PAINTING WILL BE "THE ACCUSER" (Zephyr Press, 2005). He also published two chapbooks—The Elms Left Elm Street (Plane Bukt, 1994) and How Many of You Are You? (Dusie, 2006). He has collaborated twice with Simone Muench: Little Visceral Carnival (Cinemateque Press, 2009) and DISAPPEARING ADDRESS (BlazeVOX [books], 2010). He also collaborated with Sasha Miljevic, publishing Distance, an ekphrastic hybrid of prose and poetry (Dutch Art Institute, 2009). He recently completed his third manuscript, Colony Collapse.