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Pelvis with Distance - Softcover

Jacobs, Jessica

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9781935210665: Pelvis with Distance

Synopsis

Winner, 2015 New Mexico Book Award, Poetry
Current Finalist, Lambda Literary Award, Lesbian Poetry 
Longlist Finalist, Julie Suk Award
Over the Rainbow selection, American Library Association

A biography-in-poems of Georgia O'Keeffe, interwoven with the poet's lyric accounts of a solitary month in a primitive desert cabin. A narrative-drivencollection that reads like a novel, this book delves into issues of creativity,feminism, and relationships, while exploring turn-of-thelast century New York City and the New Mexico highdesert of the 1930s and today.

"Georgia O'Keeffe's remarkable life and work inspired this poetic meditation on everything from the pleasures and pains of love to the transformations that time works on an individual. And just as the artist distilled the essence of her subject matter, abstracting from flowers and bones, landscapes and clouds, a vivid story of her walk in the sun, so Jessica Jacobs discovers a vibrant music rooted in portraiture. 'How little it takes/ to make home unfamiliar,' she writes. And home in this stunning book turns out to be the entire universe. Make yourself comfortable. There is so much to taste and see."--Christopher Merrill, Necessities and From the Faraway Nearby: Georgia O'Keeffe as Icon

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About the Author

Jessica Jacobs grew up in Central Florida and has since lived in San Francisco and New York, with stints in Indiana and Arkansas along the way. Her work has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Cave Wall, Iron Horse, The Missouri Review, Poet Lore, and Rattle, among other journals and anthologies. She holds a B.A. from Smith College and an M.F.A. from Purdue University. An avid long-distance runner, Jessica has worked as a rock climbing instructor, bartender, textbook Acquisitions Editor, Editor-in-Chief of Sycamore Review, and now as a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Hendrix College. She lives in Little Rock, AR with her wife, the poet Nickole Brown. Pelvis With Distance is her debut collection.

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