Isolating One's Priorities in a Time of Crisis - Couverture souple

Harris, Jan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1646626672 ISBN 13 : 9781646626670

Editeur : Finishing Line Press, 2021

Synopsis

Harris' poetic landscape is apocalypse, imagined and real. Full of hydroponic lettuce, empty cul-de-sacs, unrequited raptures, our own resilient bodies, and the intimacy of isolation-this is a dystopian collection to relish.

-Amalie Flynn, author of Wife and War: The Memoir

just a stranger in a strange strange place

-Kevin Morby

Jan Harris's Isolating One's Priorities in a Time of Crisis reads like a mystic whispering danger where "the sounds of our own voices unimaginable" howl from a phantom of recycled mornings. Harris uses the ouroboros to circle around you as she guides you toward meaning in this chaotic time-Harris knows you are afraid, she doesn't take that away from you, she just joins you in empathy, almost as if "[o]ur lives ran parallel until we met in the knot." Isolating One's Priorities in a Time of Crisis contains palpable, surreal moments where the reader must confront the typhonic mind of the virtual human hollow-gram we have been hiding behind. She guides the reader through this human terror of monotony in time, yet still she guides your eyes to the living stars, "declaring that the stars / are not dead but are hidden / from one another like us." Harris's work is one you read again and again because her love for lavishing language cannot be denied. I will never stop learning from Jan Harris-you are safe with Harris as she shows you the darkness, but softly reminds you that the "wildflowers crowd [the] meadows and in the shadows / green things begin to grow." Harris's writing is gritty, surreal, and intrepid.

-Robyn Leigh Lear, Poetry Editor for WAXING & WANING: A LITERARY JOURNAL and Creative Director for April Gloaming Publishing-and forever a student of Dr. Jan from long ago

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jan Elaine Harris is an Associate Professor of English and Writing at Lipscomb University in Nashville, TN. Her recent poems have appeared in The West Trade Review, HERWords, The Portland Review, Camas, The Rumpus, The Exposition Journal, and Event. She lives in Nashville with her spouse and her two perfect GSPs, Malloy and Astrid-June.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Finishing Line Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1646626672
• ISBN 13: 9781646626670
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 38
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible