Poetry. HOLD TIGHT is Jeni Olin's second full collection of poems, following her exciting debut, BLUE COLLAR HOLIDAY. Writing about that book, John Ashbery praised her "wonderfully caustic and vulnerable lyrics," adding that "Olin's voice is both raw and strangely accommodating. This is a marvelous debut."

Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA

Jeni Olin lives in Manhattan where she rages in "posh isolation" with her maltese dog Good Times. Jeni received her BA & MFA from Naropa University. Her first full-length book BLUE COLLAR HOLIDAY was published by Hanging Loose in 2005. Her most recent publications are a chapbook of pharmaceutical sonnets about antidepressants titled THE PILL BOOK from Faux Press, 2008, and the full-length book HOLD TIGHT: THE TRUCK DARLING POEMS from Hanging Loose Press in 2010. She is currently working on a manuscript called EVERYBODY LEAVES. Also she is changing her name to Truck Darling and her friends call her truck.

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