Streets As Elsewhere

Streets As Elsewhere is where everything and everyone is absorbed by the place, where "This empty house listens to its landscape"; "Dust as it is seen is swept inwards/ as a dream at noon." The inhabitants are as discarnate as those in Pedro Paramo, ..".a woman walking up the dusty road. / Straight uphill." ..".wild bees in a memory of women stretching fabric." The sound tunes to its surrounds-crows in the afternoon, April thunder, crickets-and to smells of overcoats in rain, cognac and persimmons. A subtle disquietude attaches to a sense of belonging; a strange magnetism alleviates an equally potent sense of estrangement. So much braided hair, so much so much dust, so much rain. J.L. Jacobs has conjured a language for her distinctive world. The poems linger and beckon. The silvered reader enters from behind the mirror. The book tenders a strange exaltation. -C.D. Wright 9780985133771 0985133775 94 BOOK Poetry NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LQjzoAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• | Author: J. L. Jacobs
• | Publisher: Mongrel Empire Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 13, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 94 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0985133775
• | ISBN-13: 9780985133771