{"product_id":"face-cut-out-for-locket-paperback","title":"Face Cut Out for Locket - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJenn Blair\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFACE CUT OUT FOR LOCKET\u003c\/em\u003e is Jenn Blair's fourth collection of poetry. Her previous collections are \u003cem\u003eMALCONTENT\u003c\/em\u003e (winner of American Popular Culture's Press Americana Poetry Prize), \u003cem\u003eTHE SHEEP STEALER\u003c\/em\u003e (Hyacinth Girl Press), and \u003cem\u003eALL THINGS ARE ORDERED\u003c\/em\u003e (Finishing Line Press). Her work has been published in such journals as \u003cem\u003eRATTLE\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eKENYON REVIEW\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCOPPER NICKEL\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePEMBROKE MAGAZINE\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eBERKLEY POETRY REVIEW\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eATTICUS REVIEW\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSOUTHAMPTON REVIEW\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCHATTAHOOCHEE REVIEW\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAPPALACHIAN REVIEW\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eSOUTH CAROLINA REVIEW\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNEW SOUTH\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eTULANE REVIEW\u003c\/em\u003e among others. A former recipient of Broad River Press's Ron Rash Poetry Prize and a Dorothy B. Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Award, she teaches writing at Lander University, Lee University, and the University of Georgia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Jenn Blair's \u003cem\u003eFACE CUT OUT FOR LOCKET\u003c\/em\u003e, voices of the past and present reckon with violence, guilt, doubt, and grief, even as they hope for grace. Blair reveals the rural landscape's hard truths along with its beauty in this place where \"anybody would tremble.\" With taut, unsparing language, she exhorts the reader to \"retie your skittish mind to its\/ stern tether of sinew and shank,\" to pay attention to \"porch-light, leaf-litter, bone rot.\" I am grateful to Blair's exacting eye for bearing witness to the anguish residing in each of us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Carrie Green, author of \u003cem\u003eSTUDIES OF FAMILIAR BIRDS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003eJenn Blair's \u003cem\u003eFACE CUT OUT FOR LOCKET\u003c\/em\u003e opens with \"earth clinging \/ to the roots of wild.\" In this poem, the wild takes the form of onions, but throughout her collection, such wild exists in a world which is often too gorgeous, too trying to measure. \"What do I do \/ what do I do \/ but there, at day's end, \/ wordlessly nod?\" However, Blair's poems are committed to documenting the \"light pour[ing] through,\" her poems full of shimmer amidst the urge to decipher it all. \"Have I ever done \/ it even once. Willingly let go. \/ Of anything?\" These wonderful poems are a cartography of witness, of beauty, of experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Sara Henning, author of \u003cem\u003eVIEW FROM TRUE NORTH\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTERRA INCOGNITA​\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading this collection is a pilgrimage, a pensive path, of hard travel, largely rural, through 19\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century and modern voices, sustained by minor comforts-moments of tenderness-\"speckles of light.\" Blair's careful discernment of heartbreaking violences, large and small, is executed with exquisite imagery and masterful idiom. Carrying the burden of mortality, and keen to the many ways that we fail one another, her narrators often offer counter-odes: poems of observant lives, luminously lyrical in their suffering.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e-Heather Matesich Cousins, author of \u003cem\u003eSOMETHING IN THE POTATO ROOM\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 116\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.28 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 13, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47460532781234,"sku":"9781950739066","price":18.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/57e5b6189b3ecd966e267473dfec64b8.webp?v=1778923672","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/face-cut-out-for-locket-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}