Imagination Verses

Jennifer Moxley was born in 1964 and grew up in San Diego, California. She edited The Impercipient magazine and with her partner, Steve Evans, The Impercipient Lecture Series. Since 1997, she has served as poetry editor for The Baffler magazine. In addition to her US, Canadian, and British publications, her poetry has been translated into Norwegian, Czech, Swedish and French. She lives in Orono, Maine where she works as an Assistant Professor at the University of Maine.

• PrefaceImagination VersesHome WorldFrom a Distance I Can SeeI am Depressed without Your Pencil TooNight Train to Domestic Living ArrangementsNot on My SeashoreOde on the EndBi-coastal FleshingsFin de Siècle Go-betweensThe Wingèd WordsOde on the SonTen Still PetalsUnderlying AssumptionsAfter First FigureStudio LifeClub LifeHelena & the Regional BoysInto the BedroomThe Removal of Enlightenment SafeguardsDuring this RevolutionOde to ProtestThe Ballad of Her rePossessionFirstlySecondlyThirdlyFourthlyFinallyOde to the Man in the Mire of BabylonWhen in RomeCell #103The Right to CounselThe Right to Remain SilentLife PolicyThe Nuptial LifeKalypso FactoMuse CouplingsNeither Fish Nor FoulDear JCast of ShadowsDuet #1 WordsworthDuet # 2 KeatsThe Bad Choices Spy on Us GirlsWakeThe Waver in the Orbit of Uranus Becomes UnexplainableOde on the ParticleThree GracesAnthonyPaulSteveToday my mind became an elegy…Lucky So and SoThough CrowdedOnce OverLine of DescentOde to GriefTen Prolegomena to HeartbreakWreath of a Similar Year

This is a moving & accomplished real book of lyric poetry, the kind of work that comes around very rarely. That is, the contemporary American poetry scene is highly energized, there is a lot of talent out there, but rarely does a poet bring it all together in one volume as stirringly as Moxley has. It’s extraordinary.