Pelvis with Distance
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (907 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1935210661 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Georgia O'Keeffe's remarkable life and work inspired this poetic meditation on everything from the pleasures and pains of love to the transformations that time works on an individual. Make yourself comfortable. 'How little it takes/ to make home unfamiliar,' she writes. And home in this stunning book turns out to be the entire universe. And just as the artist distilled the essence of her subject matter, abstracting from flowers and bones, landscapes and clouds, a vivid story of her walk in the sun, so Jessica Jacobs discovers a vibrant music rooted in portraiture. There is so much to taste and see."--Christopher Merrill, Necessities and From the Faraway Nearby: Georgia O'Keeffe as Icon. Winner, 2015 New Mexico Book Award, PoetryCurrent Finalist, Lambda Literary Award, Lesbian Poetry Long
Powerful poetry Jessi Hempel Jessica Jacobs is an incredible poet, with an ear for melody and a concise approach to word choice. In Pelvis with Distance, she has rendered a moving portrait of Georgia O'Keefe, conjuring an artist in her most intimate moments. By illuminating O'Keefe's experiences with loneliness and grief and persistence and beauty, she taps into a more universal expression of these states. This book is about O'Keefe, but it is also about Jacobs, and about all of us.. How to Live and How to Believe As poets, we write poems into existence. If we’re lucky though, some poems, in the act of their creation, do us the great favor of writing us into existence, too. Now, this is a rare thing. And what’s even more rare is when the poet can convey the reciprocal power of creation in such a way that readers not only recognize a new existence in the poet, but walk away with a new existence of their own.Jessica Jacobs’ debut collection, Pelvis With Distance, changed my geography.These. In PELVIS WITH DISTANCE we see the thematically-linked poetry sequence brought to completion and operating at its finest: a blen J. Scott Brownlee Many an MFA student has dreamt up a "project"-based idea for a poetry collection only to see the initial momentum for the project wane or shift unexpectedly into another obsession or concern. In PELVIS WITH DISTANCE we see the thematically-linked poetry sequence brought to completion and operating at its finest: a blend of the personal (the poet's own life and imagination) and the historical (from the perspective of Georgia O'Keeffe and her NYC-based lover) that culminates in a sequence of poems
Her work has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Cave Wall, Iron Horse, The Missouri Review, Poet Lore, and Rattle, among other journals and anthologies. She holds a B.A. Pelvis With Distance is her debut collection.. from Smith College and an M.F.A. She lives in Little Rock, AR with her wife, the poet Nickole Brown. Jessica Jacobs grew up in Central Florida and has since liv
Interwoven with these sharply incised, vibrant, and painstakingly researched poems are lyric prose accounts of the author's own time alone in the desert, drawing these poems and a deepened awareness out of this accompanied solitude."--Eleanor Wilner, Reversing the Spell: New and Selected Poems“Artists and writers share many things, including a passion for observing and detailing the natural world. Portal, promise.” . VERDICT An outstanding collection that focuses on art and biography, anchored by a rich sense of place.—Doris Lynch, Library Journal. "In her eloquent poems, Jessica Jacobs artfully intertwines her own voice with Georgia O'Keeffe's words in this poet's exploration of the painter's se