Description
YOUNG AMERICANS by Jackqueline Frost is a poetry collection that conjures a present teeming with the decadent violence of the confederate South. The book is a narrative of becoming in the wartime petroleum landscape of southern Louisiana. Faulknerian in its themes and in its taste for the baroque, Frost’s lyric explores the melancholy of ‘belonging to the enormous bliss of American death’ in places where one must ‘learn what love is from what it is not.’
Poetry.
Author Bio
Jackqueline Frost was born and raised in the Deep South, and lives in Oakland, California. She is the author of THE ANTIDOTE (Compline), as well as three chapbooks: You Have the Eyes of a Martyr (O'Clock Press), The Soft Appeal (Nous-Zot Press), and When We Say Brutal (Berkeley Neo-Baroque). Her poetry and essays have appeared, or are forthcoming in Rethinking Marxism, LANA TURNER, The Death and Life of American Cities, What is Called Violence, Steamer (Australia), The Depressive Position (UK), and LIES: a journal of materialist feminism. With Zoe Tuck, Jackqueline curated the East Bay reading series Condensery in 2010-2011. Currently, she is part of the Tsega Center Collective, a group of women, queers, and trans folks, working to open a feminist community and organizing space. She collects wages as an oyster-shucker and a research assistant in antique literatures.
Author City: OAKLAND, CA USA