The Bodyfeel Lexicon

Poetry. In this elusive debut collection, Jessica Bozek presents a system of moving parts, of animal lunges, and sudden lootings-documents epistolary and fragmented that form, re-form, and deform language. Staged as a fiction via the paratextual sleight of its introduction, THE BODYFEEL LEXICON chronicles and catalogues transformation as a way of evading and understanding bodies and selves. Readers might register the shuttlings of the book's interlocutors as playful linguistic performances of the animal transformations they devise for each other. THE BODYFEEL LEXICON flies at several altitudes, the demarcations of which threaten dissolution at every turn. THE BODYFEEL LEXICON was a finalist for the 2007 Gatewood Prize.

Jessica Bozek is the author of The Bodyfeel Lexicon (Switchback) and several chapbooks, including the new Other People's Emergencies (Hive) and the forthcoming Dear Darkest Sky (Dancing Girl). Recent poems appear (or soon will) in Action, Yes, Coconut, Fairy Tale Review, P-QUEUE, and Womb. Jessica lives in Cambridge, MA, and runs Small Animal Project, a reading series and web-text experiment.