Punctum
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Wick Poetry Chapbook Series Five
ISBN-10
1606353330
ISBN-13
9781606353332
Publisher
Kent State University Press
Imprint
Kent State University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 30th, 2017
Print length
32 Pages
Weight
249 grams
Dimensions
21.00 x 13.70 x 2.50 cms
Product Classification:
Poetry / poems by individual poetsPoetry by individual poets
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In Punctum, Lesley Jenike's new collection, she writes, “It's our language: what can we call a thing / that is and is not.” These poems are haunted by a “non-child”, a child who was not to be born, and with it, a life the speaker was not to live. Absence itself becomes a nearly tangible presence.”
“In Punctum:, Lesley Jenike’s new collection, she writes, ‘It’s our language: what can we call a thing / that is and is not.’ These poems are haunted by a ‘non-child,’ a child who was not to be born, and with it, a life the speaker was not to live. Absence itself becomes a nearly tangible presence. I don’t know how Jenike does it—breaks your heart and makes you want more—but I can’t remember the last time I read poems as smart and sure and devastatingly precise in their language, imagery, and feeling. In a poem about a fateful ultrasound, one that reveals no fetal heartbeat, she writes, ‘the doctor calls it “practice,” snapping off // the screen, tearing up the spit-out photograph. / “Next time,” she says, “it’ll be the real thing.”’ Mark my words: these poems are—and this poet is—the real thing. Punctum: is a remarkable accomplishment.”
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