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Author: Jennifer Martenson

Jennifer Martenson was born in Seattle, spent a number of years in Chicago and now lives in Providence, Rhode Island. She works in libraries and is both a musician and a poet. Burning Deck has published XQ281 as a chapbook in 2001. UNSOUND (Burning Deck, 2010) is her first full book.

Unsound
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Unsound

Burning Deck

By Jennifer Martenson

Poetry. LGBT Studies. Martenson's poems are narratives of thinking. They are landscapes in which abstract concepts have the presence and force of physical objects—you may hit your head on them. The focus is on dissonance, whether between perception ...

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XQ281
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XQ281

Burning Deck

By Jennifer Martenson

Poetry. LGBT Studies. XQ281 is a satiric response to the so-called "gay gene" that made headlines in 1993. Noting that no genetic marker for "lesbianism" has been found, the poem quickly becomes entangled in footnotes. Mock-inquiries into the biolog...

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