Bøger af Jennifer Jean

"The Fool takes us to this basic truth: that when we feel most unloved and unlovable, we enter the space of endings and beginnings, the space where we must decide whether or not to believe. This collection of poetry is thus an article of faith, poems that dare us-in unflinching terms-to believe. Jean's poetic emerges in twists of language that hurtle into dangerous places, steep falls and banked curves that bring us back to consider life's vital air and light." Afaa Michael Weaver, The Government of Nature "Jennifer Jean's The Fool asks us, 'Aren't we supposed to see after time spent in the dark?' And blessedly, the answer is yes: so much life goes on to breathe and dwell in this exceptional debut collection: muggy men, hornets, vespers, '...the eyes of these poems black like beetles.' The Fool gives us a world where '...we need every red-engine knell to slumber...and then we could wake stoked to survive.' This is a poetry that does more than survive in our collective memory: it flashes, it burns." Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Lucky Fish "When you open Jennifer Jean's new book The Fool, be ready to travel with her. The title comes from an archetypal figure in the Tarot cards, one typically imagined as a wanderer, someone open to life, needing freedom but perhaps buffeted by it too, a figure not beyond fear, but not afraid of the dark either. These are also the virtues you'll find in Jennifer Jean's poems. They travel back to a hardscrabble childhood, and forward through a young woman's coming of age. She also takes us inward via dreams and shape-shifting visions, charting thereby some of the wilder and more difficult areas of the psyche. At each turn of the journey, we accompany a person in the process of acquiring hard-earned and utterly worthwhile spiritual wisdom. In effect, what we witness in these vivid poems is the growth of a soul." Fred Marchant, Full Moon Boat and The Looking House

For mothers long on love for reading and short on time, a unique collection about being a mother and also being a daughter, partner, worker, artist. Mom Egg Review contains short fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction by the best mother writers from around the world, and by others writing about motherhood. - A young mother conceals her anxieties about a new pregnancy. - A Caucasian mother fears for her mixed-race child. - A toddler who'd become enamored of "no" learns "yes". - A poet recalls her grandmother's love and lessons. At the heart of the issue is a special poetry folio themed Compassionate Action. In a world barraged with images of violence, injustice, and suffering, frustration can lead to despair and feelings of powerlessness. The poems in this section inspire compassionate action, both at home and in the world, a model and a roadmap to empowerment in urgent circumstances. Mom Egg Review can be read through or dipped into; it is a collection to read, re-read and share. Spend time with mothers from around the world who offer keen insights on day-to-day and extraordinary activities of motherhood, and inspiration for connecting to our creative, compassionate selves.

The poems in Jennifer Jean's new collection VOZ are a wonderful amalgamation of intelligent and historically aware formal pressures intertwined with an irrepressible joie de vivre animating the language and imagery (even when their subjects are difficult). The work here has such a living pulse, such clarity and warmth and ease in its expression, that I hungered for more by the end. A really wonderful book that all lovers of contemporary poetry will be happy to have in their collections.-Erin Belieu, author of Come-hither Honeycomb