Poetry. "Jennifer Perrine is a poet of formal agility and surprise, with a command of language that ranges from the spare to the luxuriously rampant, from the scientific to the ecstatic. THE BODY IS NO MACHINE--indeed! Here we see the sensual body in all its chameleon shades of gender and passion. These poems are exact, intelligent, vivid, thrilling--a first book to admire, and a poet to watch"--Betsy Sholl.
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Jennifer Perrine is a poet of formal agility and surprise, with a command of language that ranges from the spare to the luxuriously rampant, from the scientific to the ecstatic. --Betsy Sholl
In these lusciously languaged poems, Perrine is as grimly witty in grief as in joy, and The Body Is No Machine is a dazzling debut collection. --Cynthia Hogue
Seduced by words, this poet thinks with her whole body. Gender bends so far the barriers between us and within us shift and change. --Peggy Shumaker
In these lusciously languaged poems, Perrine is as grimly witty in grief as in joy, and The Body Is No Machine is a dazzling debut collection. --Cynthia Hogue
Seduced by words, this poet thinks with her whole body. Gender bends so far the barriers between us and within us shift and change. --Peggy Shumaker
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Jennifer Perrine holds degrees in Religion, Art, English, and Creative Writing. Her work has appeared in various journals, including Bellingham Review, Green Mountains Review, Nimrod, River Styx, and Southern Poetry Review, among others. She lives in Des Moines, Iowa, and teaches writing, gender studies, and Holocaust studies at Drake University.
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Jennifer Perrine's first collection of poems, The Body Is No Machine (New Issues, 2007), won the 2008 Devil's Kitchen Reading Award in Poetry. Her second book, In the Human Zoo (University of Utah Press, 2011), received the 2010 Agha Shahid Ali Prize. Perrine lives in Des Moines, Iowa, where she organizes the Younger American Poets Reading Series.
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Not in freshman science, where reproduction was nothing less than an arabesque of cells duplicating-alike, alike-one species' biotic potential slopping its Bronx cheer at death. Read the first page New!
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