Sign-In
Cart
Colony Collapse Metaphor
Paperback
Poetry CriticismGeneral Poetry
Publisher Price: $15.95
ISBN13: 9781934200742
Publisher: Fence Books
Published: Aug 5 2014
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.90 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
Into the deeper shoals of syntax strolls Philip Jenks, sans machete, instead with a watering can filled to the brim with acto-juice precisely calculated to make those nouns and verbs and articles shoot to record heights and tangles.--Kevin Killian
Philip Jenks's poems land like bolts of plasma: superheated, suppurated, the inverted afterthought of destiny that awaits the speaker of one poem, or absurdities that make a devastating sense, as when Jenks asks about temperature of God while invoking the fires of Auschwitz, or when he imagines meth-laced syringes puncturing a user's skin from the inside out. These poems draw blood.
FOX HOLE
--where the heart sits.
Body song
Of a prayer, you.
Ensemble
Ablated
They pulled the skin and fur clean off,
But the fox, panting, blinked with
What was left of eyes.
Peeled.
Strung out
Will I aid and abet
With inaction?
There is no difference
Between killing and allowing to die.
Philip Jenks lives in Chicago, Illinois, where he teaches English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His previous volumes are On the Cave You Live In (2002), My First Painting will be The Accuser (2005), and Disappearing Address (2010). He has toured and recorded with Neil Michael Hagerty as a member of The Howling Hex. His academic specializations are in gender studies, animal rights, and political philosophy. He likes good music and pinball.
Also in
General Poetry
Dante's Vita Nuova, New Edition: A Translation and an Essay
Pitavy, Francois
Alighieri, Dante
Paperback
Sounding the Seasons Enlarged Edition: One Hundred and Ten Sonnets for the Christian Year
Guite, Malcolm
Paperback
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Lao Tzu
Paperback
They Bloom Because of You: Poems on the Infinite Love, Growth, and Magic of Motherhood
Urlichs, Jessica
Paperback
Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement
Plath, Sylvia
Paperback
This Is the Main Event: Discovering the Life You Long for in the Life You Have
Smith, Joshua Luke
Hardcover