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Jennifer Perrine/Again ;Cover design: Beth Ford
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Explore the evocative world of poetry with *Again* by Jennifer Perrine, published by Airlie Press. This paperback collection captures profound reflections through vivid, non-fictional verse, accompanied by a captivating cover design by Beth Ford. Perfect for poetry enthusiasts seeking thought-provoking and beautifully crafted works.
About the Book:
Again riffs on common words—tremendous, terrific, disaster, wall, ban—that have been overused and misused in recent years, made to carry the weight of disturbing connotations.
In poems that speak through both a collective voice and a singular, personal one, Again maps the emotional territories of this specific—but not unique—moment in United States history. Jennifer Perrine’s poems trace a path through this surreal landscape, illuminating a terrain of disorientation, grief, and shame at the America we have made. Again is an anthem, a reckoning for the “land of the smack that makes us see stars, home of the belt that stripes our backs.”
Drawing on allusions that range from nursery rhymes and folk tales to Simone de Beauvoir and The Wizard of Oz, the poems explore the nuances of each fraught word, recollecting its various meanings and resisting monolithic rhetoric. Through wordplay and wry wit, Again steals these words back, infusing the language “once more / with feeling.”
About the Author:
Jennifer Perrine is the author of three previous books of poetry, most recently No Confession, No Mass, winner of the Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Award and the Prairie Schooner Book Prize. Perrine’s other books include In the Human Zoo, which was selected for the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize, and The Body Is No Machine. A recipient of fellowships from Literary Arts and the Vermont Studio Center, Perrine lives in Portland, Oregon.
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