Poetry. "lest you think untethered, dearest port city, we are tremendously thankful anxious violas." Jen Hofer's epistles, parentheticals and broken paragraphs consider human experience-a morning, an offensive film, the death of a friend, a cactus forest, cross-country travel, a ferry ride-from a stance tethered more to perception than to denotation. Meanings accrue as experiences do, disordered and illogical, or delineating a musical, roving, inquisitive logic that functions not to explain, but to open. "on the other side of that hill it's the end of the world, i believe. unless there's more." "Jen Hofer's cadence in these short blocks of text is sharp. The phrases are fluid, yet the phrasing is a play of distances, allowing the words to deepen in tone and quicken in rhythm, like Monk at his most radical . . . Hofer's serials coax you into faith. AS FAR AS is a book about distances, a book of measures ... brushing description up against history . . . 'going out but very difficult / to ignore'" - Patrick F. Durgin, The Poetry Project Newsletter. Saddlestapled chapbook.

Author City: Los Angeles, CA USA

Jen Hofer's books include LIP WOLF, a translation of lobo de labio by Laura Solorzano (Action Books, 2007), SEXOPUROSEXOVELOZ AND SEPTIEMBRE, a translation of books two and three of Dolores Dorantes by Dolores Dorantes (Counterpath Press and Kenning Editions, 2007), THE ROUTE, an epistolary and poetic collaboration with Patrick Durgin (Atelos, 2008), and a book-length series of anti-war-poem-manifestos, titled ONE (Palm Press, 2008). She lives in Los Angeles, where she is a member of the Little Fakers collective which creates and produces Sunset Chronicles, a neighborhood-based serial episodic drama populated entirely by hand-made marionettes inhabiting lost, abandoned and ghost spaces in Los Angeles.