Description
Poetry. There is a STORY at a beach. There is a couple evolving and devolving inside a new fangled form of the couplet. There is the landscape: the ocean, sand, and sun that language flails in trying to recreate. "The beach reached for them but slipped. / The beach shells and sound. / The beach the one syllable until soft." STORY is a cryptic film, an old photograph, a mystery, where narrative, memory, truth, and trauma are interrogated, where credibility slips much like the language that is storytelling. Where, "what is the truth but what we say."
"A massively ambitious and disciplined work that utilizes cinematic and novelistic technique, sometimes reminding me of Nouvelle Vague—and at other times, a rich and textured grammar of the interpersonal."—Erica Hunt
Author Bio
Jennifer Firestone is the author of five books of poetry and four chapbooks including STORY (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2019), TEN, (BlazeVOX [books], 2019), GATES & FIELDS (Belladonna*, 2017), FLASHES (Shearsman Books, 2013), HOLIDAY (Shearsman Books, 2008), Swimming Pool (DoubleCross Press), Waves (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), from Flashes and snapshot (Sona Books) and Fanimaly (Dusie Kollektiv). She co- edited, with Dana Teen Lomax, LETTERS TO POETS: CONVERSATIONS ABOUT POETICS, POLITICS, AND COMMUNITY (Saturnalia Books, 2008) and is collaborating with Marcella Durand on a book about feminist avant-garde poetics. Firestone has work anthologized in KINDERGARDE: AVANT-GARDE POEMS, PLAYS, STORIES, AND SONGS FOR CHILDREN (Black Radish Books, 2013) and Building is a Process / Light is an Element: essays and excursions for Myung Mi Kim. She won the 2014 Marsh Hawk Press' Robert Creeley Memorial Prize. Firestone is an Associate Professor of Literary Studies at the New School's Eugene Lang College and is also the Director of their Academic Fellows pedagogy program.
Author City: BROOKLYN, NY USA