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The Fool
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ISBN13: 9781773101750
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
Published: Sep 8 2020
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Finalist, A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry
Finalist, Raymond Souster Award
In tarot, the Fool represents continual beginnings, not being able to see or think past the excitement and potential of a new start. The Fool is also associated with zero -- a literal loop.
Like Anne Carson writing poetry in the style of the poet alchemist Arthur Rimbaud, Jessie Jones renders her reflections with acerbic brilliance. In her debut collection, she examines the sensual, cruel, pleasing, and depraved state of being human in the twenty-first century. All pro, she's ready to stage a coup d' é tat.
Reflective with a kind of circular logic edging toward a darker surrealism, these poems are at times comically satirical, but always grounded in fresh ethos. A pleasure of language and circumstance, where passengers on a boat peer through a thick, absorbent mist and the poet moves through/the city like a bundle of kindling./ All day I wait for a bit of friction/ to transform me, The Fool sets its sights on a world riddled with panaceas designed to course-correct our lives.
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