Poetry. Composed of poems, prose segments, and visual pieces, this remarkable first book is both formal and colloquial, fluid and hard-edge, with the diction riffing between Biblical and Dylanesque. A mock-epic of the everyday as it might be discovered through juxtapositions of public and private information. "Lisa Jarnot's SOME OTHER KIND OF MISSION suggests that Language Poetry may be mutating, back to the modernism of Stein and Joyce, having been permanently inflected (or deflected) by a late twentieth-century sharpness and exasperation.... These are haunting, perplexing narratives of the inenarrable"--John Ashbery.

Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA

Lisa Jarnot is the author of NIGHT SCENES (Flood Editions, 2008), THE ILIAD BOOK XXII: THE DEATH OF HECTOR (Book Thug, 2007), REPTILE HOUSE (Book Thug, 2006), BLACK DOG SONGS (Flood Editions, 2003), THE EIGHTFOLD PATH (A+Bend Press, 2000), and SOME OTHER KIND OF MISSION (Burning Deck, 1996). She lives in New York City and is the owner and operator of Catskill Organics Farm.