Sekxphrastiks

by Jane Goldman

How to write about a poet as honed? I wish for this magic in every book of poems I open, but it rarely is. Jane Goldman raps from inside our heads, do you get it, do you hear this, it is time to understand these things, these raw-lipped dadas without you-At the same time, her book pulls itself around us, and we get a new feeling about poetry, a subject we thought we knew well. I LOVE THIS BOOK!!! WOW RIGHT FROM THE START AND IT JUST GOES GOES GOES!!! -CAConrad, author of While Standing in Line for Death (Wave Books, 2017)
SEKXPHRASTIKS is a derangement of the senses as well as a sharp intersectional appraisal of encounter, often going beyond the human. I think that's in line with Tessa Berring, Bernadette Mayer, but also like Dorothea Lasky's kind of ritualistic shout-voice that is wild and spirited. - Maria Sledmere, Spam Zine
Gorgeous, gleaming, and irrepressible, Jane Goldman's SEKXPHRASTIKS comes to us freshly bolted from the stable. No 'sealed empire of objects' is this provocative and joyous menagerie. Tuned to the sensuous vibrations of Art, SEKXPHRASTIKS calls forth, boldly and inventively, language's innate states of desire and performance. -Lila Matsumoto, author of Urn & Drum (Shearsman, 2018)
Front and Back Cover Images by Caroline McNairn (1955-2010)

248 pages, Paperback

Published June 29, 2021

About the author

Jane Goldman is a poet and Reader in English Literature and Creative Writing at Glasgow University, and General Editor of the Cambridge University Press edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf. Her poetry books include Border Thoughts (Leamington Books, 2014); SEKXPHRASTIKS (Dostoyevski Wannabe, 2021), Catullus 64, (Main Point Books, 2023), a translation of the Roman poet's mini-epic, with 12, a collective of Scottish women poets, Pink Witch (Main Point Books, 2024), a critique of Barbie via Witches of Scotland, and with Colin Herd, Iain Morrison and Maria Sledmere, Not Just a NY QUINCUNX (Mermaid Hotel, 2024).