Fluorescence: Poems

by Jennifer K. Dick

In Jennifer K. Dick's first book, Fluorescence, very real places—Paris, Massachusetts, Colorado, Iowa, Morocco—mix into the imagined, into Breughelian villages where there's "a persimmon in the corner knitting." These places are inhabited by varied but always very real bodies, stretching outward from their own edges and encountering, or engendering, a certain luminescence in the process. What happens when we exceed ourselves? When fragments of dream are lifted to the surface and through to something beyond? Clues, keys, indications—all that once seemed certain slips off into code. These poems use language to crack it.

Genres: Poetry

104 pages, Paperback

First published October 11, 2004

About the author

Jennifer K. Dick is an American poet, translator and scholar born in Minnesota, raised in Iowa, and currently living in Mulhouse, France, where she is a professor at the Université de Haute Alsace. She has a PhD from the Université de Paris III: La Sorbonne Nouvelle and an MFA in poetry from Colorado State University. Her poetry belongs to the post-L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E school, with a strong background in lyric and narrative tradition.

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