Description
Poetry. Winner of the 2014 Kelsey Street Press FIRSTS! Contest. "Jennifer Pilch's DEUS EX MACHINA pulls the ache from a fractured century, stitching the bloom past artifice into an urgent, prismatic form unlike any we have seen. Each voice 'risks/transforms night' into 'a blossom that punctures that blots.' A book like this, assembled from music and ruin and light, is rare and necessary."—Joshua Poteat
"In DEUS EX MACHINA, Jennifer Pilch crashes classical tragedy into melodrama, foregrounding the parameters of representation in an analog of early photography's impact. With lush language, she explores the photograph's obviating violence, focusing on the 'taken' part of the picture and the lens's seizure of sensory mechanics. Working at varying distances from the stage, the page, and the photographic image, her historical characters successively worry the line between romance and fidelity, presence and preservation, and contend with a colonizing mode of 'perception stuck to where there's light.'"—Kate Colby
Author Bio
Poet and visual artist Jennifer Pilch is the author of the chapbooks Profil Perdu (Greying Ghost Press), Bulb-Setting (dancing girl press), and Mother Color (Konundrum Engine Editions). Her poems have appeared in many journals, including American Letters & Commentary, Berkeley Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, Fence, The Iowa Review, New American Writing, Summer Stock, Tarpaulin Sky Press, and Western Humanities Review. She edits/curates La Vague.
Author City: CARLSBAD, CA USA