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Among the Dead: Ah! and Afterward Yes!
Poetry. Winner of the inaugural Les Figues Press NOS Book Prize as selected by guest judge Sarah Shun-lien Bynum.
A family of five, Mrs. G, Mr. G and the daughter, along with a chorus and a collector (ghostly cousins perhaps or kindred ghosts or genealogists extraordinaire), inhabit Becca Jensen's AMONG THE AH! AND AFTERWARD YES!. The family's home rests on the foundations of English and classical literature; the lilt and language of which seep through the floorboards and into the air they breathe. Reading becomes the basis for living. Imagination mingles seamlessly with reality. Interpretation is the main form of play, and the play, dear sirs, is the thing.
Mary Jo Bang calls Jensen's book "a feat of innovation" and Kerri Webster says it "is an ode to how what we read infiltrates at the cellular level, re-writing us." In selecting the book, NOS contest judge Sarah Shun-lien Bynum writes that AMONG THE AH! AND AFTERWARD YES! "reminds us of the family that, through the act of reading, we come home to.
A family of five, Mrs. G, Mr. G and the daughter, along with a chorus and a collector (ghostly cousins perhaps or kindred ghosts or genealogists extraordinaire), inhabit Becca Jensen's AMONG THE AH! AND AFTERWARD YES!. The family's home rests on the foundations of English and classical literature; the lilt and language of which seep through the floorboards and into the air they breathe. Reading becomes the basis for living. Imagination mingles seamlessly with reality. Interpretation is the main form of play, and the play, dear sirs, is the thing.
Mary Jo Bang calls Jensen's book "a feat of innovation" and Kerri Webster says it "is an ode to how what we read infiltrates at the cellular level, re-writing us." In selecting the book, NOS contest judge Sarah Shun-lien Bynum writes that AMONG THE AH! AND AFTERWARD YES! "reminds us of the family that, through the act of reading, we come home to.
- GenresPoetry
75 pages, Paperback
First published March 18, 2013
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November 17, 2014
One of those rare books that is packaged like a birthday but feels like Christmas, like soaring over the treetops of your English degree and having your feet touch the dark pines of all these phrases you half remember. A book to work on, to dance with secretly and also pick over like a little brown crab picks over every weed in the rockpool.
April 28, 2013
oh this book is SO GREAT. full of energy and weirdness but also history, as in literature: moby dick, keats, bronte, donne...but not at all didactic, more like a current that breaks and re-joins every so often. sarah shun-lien bynum chose this as the winner of the les figues NOS contest and if you love her work then you know that anything she loves will be loved by you too. probably. anyhow, READ THIS.
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