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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Punctum:

Punctum:

Jenike

Paperback

Series: Wick Chapbook, Book 8

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $7.00

ISBN10: 1606353330
ISBN13: 9781606353332
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: Jan 30 2017
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.55
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

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.--Maggie Smith

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