Poetry. LGBT Studies. Currin's acclaimed debut collection, The Sleep of Four Cities, announced the arrival of a fully formed, arresting new talent, and the poems in this new collection, HAGIOGRAPHY, see her trademark cunning wordplay and entirely contemporary take on the surrealist image moving into new and more personal territory. In a style that regularly pushes life's barely hidden strangeness into the light, Currin's poems present thought as a bright, emotionally complex event, a place where mind and sense and the natural world they move through become indistinguishable elements in a mysterious, familiar, vexing, fascinating, and continuous human drama. There are no saints in this hagiography--only ghosts, sisters, spiders, birds...This is an anti-biography. It starts with death and ends with birth. In between: life after life.

Author City: Vancouver, BC CAN

Jen Currin was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, and did her schooling at Bard College and Arizona State University. She has published three collections of poetry, THE SLEEP OF FOUR CITIES (Anvil Press, 2005), HAGIOGRAPHY (Coach House, 2008), and THE INQUISITION YOURS (Coach House, 2010). She currently lives in Vancouver, where she teaches creative and academic writing.

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