WINNER OF THE 2013 JAMES LAUGHLIN AWARDWinner of
the 2013 Isabella Gardner Poetry AwardThe "Los Angeles
Times" described Jillian Weise's debut poetry collection
as "a fearless dissection of the taboo and the hidden."
In this second collection she forwards her bold, sexy
poetics by chronicling an affair with a man she names
"Big Logos." These poems throw into question sex, the
law, identity, sentiment, and power, shifting between
lyric and narrative, hyper-realism and magical realism,
fact and fiction.I've Been Waiting All Night"I reckon
you were asleep with your girlbefore the phone rang.
Make something up.""I've been waiting all night to tell
youabout the couple in post-War France, ""the woman
fresh in her graveand the man who didn't like his
mistress dead, ""no sir, and so exhumed her, to the
dismayof his wife, who had him arrested""for the stink
he made.She was reburied, returned to the dead.""After
jail, he dug her up to fuck again.Attached suction cups
and crafted""a wig from a broom. You can go now.I'm more
in the mood than you're used to."Jillian Weise--an
above-the-knee amputee with a computerized
prosthetic--identifies as a cyborg and has discussed the
identity in essays for the "New York Times" and "Drunken
Boat." Her books include "The Amputee's Guide to Sex"
(Soft Skull Press, 2007) and "The Colony"
(Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press, 2010). She is an
assistant professor at Clemson University, a
contributing editor at the "South Carolina Review," and
co-director of the Annual Clemson Literary
Festival.
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