BIO:
Jennifer Firestone is the author of Holiday, an interrogation of the relationships among observation, travel and consumerism, which is forthcoming from Shearsman Books. Her chapbooks from Flashes (2006), an excerpt from a long prose poem exploring money, war and urban culture, and snapshot (2004), which is a selection from Holiday, are both published by Sona Books. Jennifer's work has appeared in numerous journals, including How2, 14 Hills, 580 Split, Boog City, MIPOesias, Can We Have Our Ball Back, Dusie and Moria. She is the co-editor of the anthology Letters To Poets: Conversations About Poetics, Politics and Community which is forthcoming from Saturnalia Books, and the recipient of grant-supported writing residencies at the Ragdale Foundation, the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. Jennifer lives in Brooklyn with her partner and their infant twins. She is Poet in Residence at Eugene Lang College at the New School University.

 

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EXCERPT:

What will grow numerously
He shant
In the hostile room where white appeared
Food shoots through pipes
Consuming
Without faculties to arise
Whitened
With the moss laying bare its body



The vacancy of divinity
Lushness from the bough
He who provides no answers     sleeping



The webbing floats   centerless
She who has tipped her face into
Run up and touch it    run up