Description
Poetry. Art. "Funny and sad, the poems in COMMON SENSE sound the gulf between wants and obligations, adolescence and adulthood, love and politics. They speak to the absurdities and desperations of contemporary America, where common sense proves as scarce as its invocations are numerous. These are poems of keen irony and even satire, addressed to the wish fulfillment of presidential elections and the insurgency of teenage lust. They capture the dislocations of common life, the detritus of our days, alert to the strange fictions and contradictions we live within."—Devin Johnston
Author Bio
Jessica Baran is the author of two poetry collections: EQUIVALENTS (Lost Roads Press, 2012 - winner of the Brigham Women Writers Award) and REMAINS TO BE USED (Apostrophe Books, 2010), as well as the chapbook Late and Soon, Getting and Spending (All Along Press, 2012). She was the director of fort gondo compound for the arts, in St. Louis, MO for five years. Her poetry and art criticism have appeared in Art in America, Artforum.com, A Public Space, Aufgabe, the Awl, BOMB, the Boston Review, and Poor Claudia, among other publications.
Author City: SAINT LOUIS, MO USA