Certain Properties/In Rem

by Jen Hofer

64 pp. Saddle-stitched 5.5x8.5. Two Jen Hofer Certain Properties and Dan Machlin In Rem, plus two collaborative poems by J.H & D.M.

Paperback

Published January 1, 1998

About the author

Jen Hofer is a poet and translator originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. Her recent publications include Sin puertas visibles: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Mexican Women (University of Pittsburgh Press and Ediciones Sin Nombre, 2003), slide rule (subpress, 2002), and the chapbooks lawless (Seeing Eye Books, 2003) and sexoPUROsexoVELOZ (translations of poetry by Dolores Dorantes, Seeing Eye Books, 2004). Her next books will be a full-length translation of Dorantes’ sexoPUROsexoVELOZ, (Kenning Editions 2007), a translation of Laura Solórzano’s lobo de labio, (Action Books, 2006), a collaboration with poet and musician Patrick Durgin (Atelos, 2007), and a book-length series of anti-war poems, titled one (Palm Press, 2008). Her poems and translations can be found in recent issues of 1913, Aufgabe, Bomb, Bombay Gin, Primary Writing and War and Peace. She lives in Los Angeles, where she teaches poetics, works as a court interpreter, and is happily a founding member of the City of Angels Ladies’ Bicycle Association, also known as The Whirly Girls.