Description
Poetry. Weird and wired, the poems in Philip Jenks' third collection scintillate with lyric absurdity and strange grace. These poems land like bolts of plasma: superheated, suppurated, the "inverted afterthought" of destiny that awaits the speaker of one poem, or absurdities that make a devastating sense, as when Jenks asks about "temperature of God" while invoking the fires of Auschwitz, or when he imagines meth-laced syringes puncturing a user's skin from the inside out. These poems draw blood.
"Into the deeper shoals of syntax strolls Philip Jenks, sans machete, instead with a watering can filled to the brim with acto-juice precisely calculated to make those nouns and verbs and articles shoot to record heights and tangles."—Kevin Killian
Author Bio
Philip Jenks lives in Chicago, Illinois, where he teaches English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His publications include ON THE CAVE YOU LIVE IN (Flood Editions, 2002); MY FIRST PAINTING WILL BE "THE ACCUSER" (Zephyr Press, 2005); DISAPPEARING ADDRESS, with co-author Simone Muench (BlazeVOX books, 2010); and COLONY COLLAPSE METAPHOR (Fence Books, 2014). He has toured and recorded with Neil Michael Hagerty as a member of The Howling Hex. His academic specializations are in gender studies, animal rights, and political philosophy. He likes good music and pinball.
Author City: CHICAGO, IL USA