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.
The cover is made out of pieces of wallpaper, and the text is seemingly about wallpaper. Wallpaper research was done! A Wallpaper museum was referenced.The poems are collage style fragments, some are images pasted in like pieces of wallpaper but words. Some words/lines are upside down…One poem is a list of pigments.