An Almost Human Gesture: Prose Poems

by Louis Jenkins, Louis Jenkins

Louis Jenkins' poems seem at first to be ordinary details of familiar life laid out in familiar rhythms and everyday language. But reading carefully we discover extraordinary works of human memory.

Genres: Poetry

52 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1987

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.