Book information
Crown Pub
USA
2019
Paperback
105
Standard
310887
978-1-984825-11-7
1-984825-11-9
Annotation
One of the most original voices of her generation has produced a second brilliant book. These poems, urban and urbane, offbeat and stringent, welcome the reader with a beguiling lucidity; but that sparkling surface, as in the best John Ashbery poems, hides an obliquity that turns out to be provocative and sometimes complexly self-unraveling. Nothing is quite as it seems--'like the East River pretending / to be a river when it's merely an appetite'--and the world is estranged and transfigured in this enchanting work. My idea of the good life would be a new Jana Prikryl poem, served daily with my breakfast, till the end of my days. --James Wood
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