Poetry. "There is in these poems a discomfited lyricism, a longing for the borders between body and body, father and son, wilderness and flesh, dead and not yet, to be permeable, a longing for an idiom, a grammar, that allows for a perfect translation, the alkahest that will dissolve sorrow just enough to transmute everyday grief into a meaningful grace."—Kellie Wells
Author City: RICE LAKE, WI USA
Joel Friederich is Assistant Professor of English and Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Barron County. He has published two chapbooks, Without Us and The Body We Gather. His poems have appeared in Witness, Prairie Schooner, The Paris Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and River Styx. He lives with his wife Lee, a scholar and translator, and their two sons in Tokyo, Japan, and Northwest Wisconsin.