After Image by Jenny George

After Image

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After Image by Jenny George

Copper Canyon Press

After Image

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Woven from dreamlike and echoing images, After Image travels between life and death, between a living body and its absence.

A house, an orchard, "a shudder of blossoms." A fountain, a bed, a sudden spring snow. Carefully woven from a dreamlike set of images which echo and reconfigure throughout the collection, the poems in Jenny George's After Image hug the cusp between life and death, between a living body and its absence. "And in the space / left behind-" Time slips. Eurydice muses on the gestures of the living, and we look out from inside the removed head of Orpheus. The laughing gods and the furies make appearances too, and the poet's persona appears as its own character--the observing self, navigating the strangenesses of grief's terrain. Unsentimental yet pulsing with love, each cutting and transcendent poem is relentless in its willingness to see, to hold both the impossibility and inevitability of transformation. In scenes that hover between the ordinary, the imagined, and the unknowable, and with George's sly, meticulous simplicity, After Image asks what lingers in the face of death and what falls away.


Book Details
Publisher:
Copper Canyon Press
ISBN:
9781556596957
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
96
Authors:
Jenny George
Published Date:
2024-10-08
Language:
English
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About Jenny George

The Dream of Reason (Copper Canyon Press, 2018), Jenny George's debut collection, followed her 2015 “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize win; a chapbook, Asterisk, appeared from Bull City Press in 2023. She holds a BA from College of the Atlantic and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. After Image, her 2024 Copper Canyon collection written after her partner's death, was a finalist for the 2025 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection. Fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Lannan Foundation, MacDowell, and Yaddo have supported her work. Currently a visiting poet at Smith College, George lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she coordinates programs for the Hidden Leaf Foundation, a Buddhist social-justice organization.

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