Jennifer Moxley

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Biographical note:  Jennifer Moxley was born in 1964 and grew up in San Diego, California. She edited The Impercipient magazine and with her partner, Steve Evans, The Impercipient Lecture Series. Since 1997, she has served as poetry editor for The Baffler magazine. In addition to her US, Canadian, and British publications, her poetry has been translated into Norwegian, Czech, Swedish and French. She lives in Orono, Maine where she works as an Assistant Professor at the University of Maine.

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EAN13:  9781876857936
ISBN-10:  1876857935
ISBN-13:  9781876857936
Author:  Jennifer Moxley
Title:  The Sense Record
Series:  Salt Modern Poets
Product class:  BC
Language:  eng
Audience:  General/trade
BIC subject category:  CTCH1
Publisher:  Salt Publishing
Pub date:  25-Feb-03
Extent:  108pp
Height:  216 mm
Width:  140 mm
Thickness:  7 mm
Weight:  162 gms
Supplier:   Gardners Books
Supplier:   Ingram Book Group
Supplier:   Inbooks (James Bennett)
Availability:  IP
Price:  GBP 9.99
Price:  USD 15.95
Rights:  Rest of world
Not for sale:  US
Not for sale:  CA

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Table of contents:
Grain of the Cutaway Insight
A Transom over Death’s Door
On This Side Nothing
Mother Night
Stem of the Trees of Orestes
Impervious to Starlight
Where Was I Going
The Second Winter
“Difficult of Access”
Aide-Memoire
Behind the Orbits
The Best American Poetry
Fixed Idea
Out of the Cradle Endlessly
The Ambition of Art
Fear of an Empty Life
Little Brick Walk
Sport of Chance
Against Aubade
The Lock
Æolian Harp
Still Present
Soleil Cou Coupé
The Critique
The Easter Lesson
To Those Who Would Equate the Public with Themselves
The Sense Record
The Occasion
The Just Real

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Against Aubade

Should morning’s snubbed forsaken purpose come
in love’s complacent orbit to relent
and to our bid for endless time succumb
could we believe ourselves the more content?
Invention may give credence to a thought
ridiculous, or better yet banal
should in a wishful prison it be caught
dissembling fear beneath the bacchanal;
Alone the mind can store old years anew
with furnishings our Eros will forsake
without concern, the watchman’s cry rings true
my love, we should no longer lie awake
but stellar-like in darkness drift compelled
our matter’s myth in time shall be dispelled.

Review quote:  The Sense Record breaks every contemporary experimentalist rule. Rather than spare and fragmentary, Moxley’s work is lush with modifiers, full sentences, and subordinate clauses. Rather than shun the first person singular as an unstable linguistic construct, she features it in almost every poem, both as herself and as a relative position open to everyone. And rather than problematize meaning, Moxley has things to say and actually says them.

Cole Swensen

Review quote:  She recharges old forms by dismantling the archaisms and replacing them with her own uses of language. It’s lyric synthesis through a kind of dream narrative, only that dream world brings with it real questions of how to live here and now.

Dale Smith