Hagiography

Her acclaimed debut collection The Sleep of Four Cities announced the arrivalof a fully formed arresting new talent and the poems in Jen Currins newcollection <... » 

Her acclaimed debut collection The Sleep of Four Cities announced the arrivalof a fully formed arresting new talent and the poems in Jen Currins newcollection Hagiography see her trademark cunning wordplay and entirelycontemporary take on the surrealist image moving into new and more personalterritory. In a style that regularly pushes lifes barely hidden strangenessinto the light Currins poems present thought as a bright emotionally complexevent a place where mind and sense and the natural world they move throughbecome indistinguishable elements in a mysterious familiar vexingfascinating and continuous human drama. There are no saints in thishagiography only ghosts sisters spiders birds This is an antibiography. Itstarts with death and ends with birth. In between life after life. «