Poetry. Art. Includes a 17-page, full-color insert of collages by the poet and cover art by Bronx-based artist Rosemarie Fiore. "Quickly: it's neither fish nor flesh, Falstaff nor Faust. 'I became again, I learned to taste.' Translation, collage, prose poem, lyric invention, periodic convolute, imploded syntax & discursive veers: Scappettone's richly textured, multifoliate poetry is an intellectual and aesthetic extravaganza that defies genre in its commitment to structural process and social materiality"--Charles Bernstein.

Author Hometown: CHICAGO, IL USA



About the author: Jennifer Scappettone was born and raised in New York, and has lived in Virginia, Nagoya, Umbria, and Northern California. A poet, translator, and purveyor as well of visual stills and prose, she is author of the chapbooks Beauty [Is the New Absurdity] (dusi/e kollectiv, 2007), Err-Residence (Bronze Skull, 2007), and Thing Ode / Ode oggettuale (La Camera Verde, 2008), and guest-editor of Aufgabe 7, featuring contemporary Italian poetry of research. She now works as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago.