Poetry. "This is a book I had to struggle my way through. Often I wondered, what is going on here? Slowly it dawned on me: Jared Schickling has devised a poetics that operates like an ecology. It is, among other qualities, indifferent to whether I understand it or not—and the poems are no more concerned with what you or I think of them than rocks, moss, lichen, yucca plants, or clouds care whether you admire their shapes or scrape your knee on their sharp edges. I respect that. It's tough, bracing, and worth the effort. It may take years to catch up to where these poems are taking us"—Andrew Schelling.

Author City: FORT COLLINS, CO USA

Jared Schickling's poetry, criticism, translation, interview, review, collaboration, has been published or is forthcoming in The Argotist, BOMBAY GIN, Big Bridge, The Cafe Review, ECOPOETICS, EXQUISITE CORPSE, Interim, Jacket, Knock (2006 Ecolit/Green Art prize), Literary Imagination, Little Red Leaves, Matter Journal, Otoliths, Sous les Paves, Borderlands: The Texas Poetry Review, unarmed, Word For/Word, the anthology 1000 Views of "Girl Singing" and elsewhere. He has five books—AURORA, SUBMISSIONS, O, ZERO'S BLOOMING EXCURSION, and T&U& LASH YOUR NIPPLES TO A POST HISTORY IS GORGEOUS (BlazeVOX [books] 2007, 08, 09, 10, 11)—and is an editor at Delete Press (letterpress chapbooks), Eccolinguistics (mimeo), and Reconfigurations: A Journal for Poetics and Poetry / Literature and Culture (online).