Where Your House Is Now: New and Selected Prose Poems

by Louis Jenkins

Louis Jenkins has been charming readers with his subtle, curious, cantankerous, and Quixotic prose poems for decades. It might be late-night ruminations about the plumbing, a bear wandering aimlessly downtown, a fishing lure so grotesque it couldn't possibly attract a fish, a row of spindly poplars in a field, or a visit to long-lost relatives in Norway. Given any situation or observation, Jenkins will follow the thread until it peters out, then veers in an entirely new but strangely logical direction, arriving, in the end, at some new, unexpected, and often hilarious truth. In Where Your House Is Now , Jenkins has combined the best of his earlier work with an entirely new set of poems that make it clear he has not lost his knack for uncovering the mysterious and bizarre beneath the quotidian experiences of Minnesota life.

124 pages, Paperback

Published September 1, 2019

About the author

Louis Jenkins was an American prose poet .He lived in Duluth, Minnesota, with his wife Ann for over four decades. His poems have been published in a number of literary magazines and anthologies. Jenkins was a guest on A Prairie Home Companion numerous times and was also featured on The Writer's Almanac.

Reviews

[Rocky Curtiss · Rating 5 out of 5]

Louis Jenkins is a delight❣️

[Brian Beatty · Rating 4 out of 5]

This volume serves as a valedictory look back that's equally earned and enlightening. Louis Jenkins remains my favorite Minnesota-based prose poet, even if he's relocated from Duluth to Bloomington. News hit December 21, 2019, that Louis Jenkins had passed away after a short stint in hospice.