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Philip Jenks, On the Cave You Live InOn the Cave You Live In is Philip Jenks' first full-length collection. His poems are both intimate and strange, encompassing personal history and the politics of Appalachia, epileptic seizures and Baptist glossalalia, memory cells and Kentucky coal mines. His cave describes the limits of what's known, and his poems explore "the spaces between the aura and the jolt.""At various turns hieratic and profane, their blur the blur-in equal parts-of the confessed and the prophetic, these poems direct us to the language that starts just past 'that point / where nothing is not.' Cassandra lives there; and Stein-and so does Philip Jenks." -Carl Phillips "I am an American. I like soup and long traffic jams. English is my first and only language. Phil Jenks is a man of many languages and I trust him to convert the currency of the commonplace from all of them into mine. Thanks Phil, and keep the schwa, the service here was excellent." -Neil Michael Hagerty |
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