The Network (National Poetry)

Poetry. In her third book Jena Osman follows poet Cecilia Vicuña's procedural instruction to "enter words in order to see." THE NETWORK emerges at the intersection of conceptual and documentary poetics, as Osman applies an idiosyncratic methodology to etymological study, to establish "derivations and kinships" of phenomena and persons and peregrinations.

Jena Osman's books include THE NETWORK, AN ESSAY IN ASTERISKS, and The Character. Her work has been translated into French, Swedish, and Serbo-Croatian. With Juliana Spahr (with whom she edited the literary magazine CHAIN for twelve years) she edits the ChainLinks Book Series. Osman teaches in the graduate Creative Writing Program at Temple University.