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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: 9781876857943
ISBN-10: 1876857943
ISBN-13: 9781876857943
Author: Jennifer Moxley
Title: Imagination Verses
Series: Salt Modern Poets
Product class: BC
Language: eng
Audience: General/trade
BIC subject category: CTCH1
Publisher: Salt Publishing
Pub date: 15-Apr-03
Extent: 116pp
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight: 174 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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description/annotation: Imagination Verses is a moving and accomplished book of real lyric poetry. Hailed as a modern masterpice it is made available here in a new expanded UK edition. Rarely does a poet bring such talent and experience together in a single volume, it is a book of wonderous possiblities, warm, engaging and truly magical.
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Table of contents:
Preface
Imagination Verses
Home World
From a Distance I Can See
I am Depressed without Your Pencil Too
Night Train to Domestic Living Arrangements
Not on My Seashore
Ode on the End
Bi-coastal Fleshings
Fin de Siècle Go-betweens
The Wingèd Words
Ode on the Son
Ten Still Petals
Underlying Assumptions
After First Figure
Studio Life
Club Life
Helena & the Regional Boys
Into the Bedroom
The Removal of Enlightenment Safeguards
During this Revolution
Ode to Protest
The Ballad of Her rePossession
Firstly
Secondly
Thirdly
Fourthly
Finally
Ode to the Man in the Mire of Babylon
When in Rome
Cell #103
The Right to Counsel
The Right to Remain Silent
Life Policy
The Nuptial Life
Kalypso Facto
Muse Couplings
Neither Fish Nor Foul
Dear J
Cast of Shadows
Duet #1 Wordsworth
Duet # 2 Keats
The Bad Choices Spy on Us Girls
Wake
The Waver in the Orbit of Uranus Becomes Unexplainable
Ode on the Particle
Three Graces
Anthony
Paul
Steve
Today my mind became an elegy…
Lucky So and So
Though Crowded
Once Over
Line of Descent
Ode to Grief
Ten Prolegomena to Heartbreak
Wreath of a Similar Year View excerpt as PDF:  Click here to view a sample (60 KB)
Excerpt from book:
Life Policy
Lit by the light
of one lamp,
with clarinet backdrop
& ashtray,
you pitch safety
and comfortable Futures.
Your neighborhood shows
as you trace the map,
ruffle the bills
and conjure up scarcity.
Everybody’s doing it, you say,
Hopeful.
Take your big dreams, I say
through the back door,
no one here can sing fate
or pick up that dime, anymore.
We left crossroads back there
with compromise, one nation
two hundred miseries
and all that commotion.
Your dreams are just words
like table salt.
Me I know
this year’s moment
will be 2 a.m., my life savings
and one train ticket
down the fault line.
Review quote: This is a moving & accomplished real book of lyric poetry, the kind of work that comes around very rarely. That is, the contemporary American poetry scene is highly energized, there is a lot of talent out there, but rarely does a poet bring it all together in one volume as stirringly as Moxley has. It’s extraordinary. Henry Gould Review quote: To read a Moxley poem is to submerge oneself in a world of chance and possibility while never being allowed to forget the limits that reality, the reality of the self and of the literal, imposes on such notions of utopia or freedom. Lucy Sheerman |
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