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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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After Image

After Image

George, Jenny

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 1556596952
ISBN13: 9781556596957
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: Oct 8 2024
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

Woven from dreamlike and echoing images, After Image travels between life and death, between a living body and its absence.

A house, an orchard, a shudder of blossoms. A fountain, a bed, a sudden spring snow. Carefully woven from a dreamlike set of images which echo and reconfigure throughout the collection, the poems in Jenny George's After Image hug the cusp between life and death, between a living body and its absence. And in the space / left behind- Time slips. Eurydice muses on the gestures of the living, and we look out from inside the removed head of Orpheus. The laughing gods and the furies make appearances too, and the poet's persona appears as its own character--the observing self, navigating the strangenesses of grief's terrain. Unsentimental yet pulsing with love, each cutting and transcendent poem is relentless in its willingness to see, to hold both the impossibility and inevitability of transformation. In scenes that hover between the ordinary, the imagined, and the unknowable, and with George's sly, meticulous simplicity, After Image asks what lingers in the face of death and what falls away.

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