My Not-My Soldier
Published on 30. December 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
136 pages
978-1-934200-75-9 (ISBN)
Description
2014 Fence Modern Poets Series winner Jennifer Mackenzie's debut is a travelogue of embodied intellect and flights of gorgeous observance.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
181 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-934200-75-9 (9781934200759)
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Person
Jennifer MacKenzie grew up in Bloomfield Hills, MI, and was educated at Wesleyan University's College of Letters and the University of Iowa's Writers Workshop. Until October 2012, she edited the Damascus-based magazine Syria Today, and her articles and literary non-fiction on Syria, Turkey and other countries in the Near East have appeared in The Huffington Post, Guernica, The Kenyon Review Online, and Killing the Buddha. She now lives in the Bronx where she teaches literature, composition and journalism at Lehman College.
Content
Where Are You Going
Silver Car 1
You Are Not a Bird 2
My John Wayne 3
All Dread Is Trying To Be Kind 4
Pharaoh Glimmer 5
My Explanation of
My Explanation of Poetry for My Not-My Soldier 15
Black Mercedes Novel 16
Confessional Poem 18
On Hue 19
Small White Bed 21
Isabella in the Tower of Winds 41
Notebook Interrupted by a Trip
to the Hospital 49
Indiscrete Leviathan 59
Blurbing the Reconquista 67
The Dead Girl 75
Wartime Garden
My Name Is Raji 87
Virgin vs. Non-Virgin Ghazals 88
School of Gypsy Fountains 89
Airy Dregs 92
Fake Boat 94
Now Duly We 96
Embedded Pastoral Curse 97
What Happens on the Moon 98
Soliloquizer 99
Damascus
Dime-Store Travelogue 103
Dear Dead 104
The Derivation of the Word Sultan 106
The Dream of the Fountain 108
Thank You James Blunt for Your Input 111
Odysseus Wept 112
Gaping Queen 114
Dispatch 115
Postcard to the Angel Jibreel 117
Distant City 118
Silver Car 1
You Are Not a Bird 2
My John Wayne 3
All Dread Is Trying To Be Kind 4
Pharaoh Glimmer 5
My Explanation of
My Explanation of Poetry for My Not-My Soldier 15
Black Mercedes Novel 16
Confessional Poem 18
On Hue 19
Small White Bed 21
Isabella in the Tower of Winds 41
Notebook Interrupted by a Trip
to the Hospital 49
Indiscrete Leviathan 59
Blurbing the Reconquista 67
The Dead Girl 75
Wartime Garden
My Name Is Raji 87
Virgin vs. Non-Virgin Ghazals 88
School of Gypsy Fountains 89
Airy Dregs 92
Fake Boat 94
Now Duly We 96
Embedded Pastoral Curse 97
What Happens on the Moon 98
Soliloquizer 99
Damascus
Dime-Store Travelogue 103
Dear Dead 104
The Derivation of the Word Sultan 106
The Dream of the Fountain 108
Thank You James Blunt for Your Input 111
Odysseus Wept 112
Gaping Queen 114
Dispatch 115
Postcard to the Angel Jibreel 117
Distant City 118