This collection engages with traditional forms and carries out various kinds of experimentation centering on the physical meaning of life. The poems confront issues of cognitive, spiritual and erotic experience, and address longing and desire in the material world. The Creature yearns for new language in which we can all more truly live.
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Jerry Harp's dreamscape poems are sturdier than they first appear, a pleasing series of contemplations of the millennial aesthetique du mal. Time after time, it is the tension between panic and good manners that he manages to make dramatic and attractive. A very impressive first collection! -- David R. Slavitt Let the new poet discover all at once his true subject and he will begin writing easily and very well. Jerry Harp is not the only poet to have had such luck, but so far as I know, he may well be the latest. -- Donald Justice
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Jerry Harp grew up in Mt. Vernon, Indiana (U.S.A.). He has degrees from Saint Meinrad College (B.A.), Saint Louis University (M.A.), the University of Florida (M.F.A.), and the University of Iowa (2002). His books of poetry include Creature (Salt Publishing, 2003) and Gatherings (Ashland Poetry Press, 2004). He co-edited, with Jan Weissmiller, A Poetry Criticism Reader (University of Iowa Press, 2006). His reviews appear regularly in Pleiades. He teaches at Lewis & Clark College.
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In one of her appearances on Oprah, Toni Morrison likened reading a book to visiting a new country. Reading Jerry Harp's first volume through from beginning to end is like visiting a place where we soon find outselves intrigued by hauntingly beautiful poems with innumerable allusions and references to a life given us in fragments that yet adds up to a whole greater than the sum of its parts. The character of the "Creature" in these poems is itself a brilliant and intriguing projection of the poet himself who takes us through both external and internal experiences. There is a nice mixture in these poems between the sacred and the profane as well as between what might be called a surrealistic world and an example of magical realism. These poems grow on you. And at times they are quietly but tellingly "activist," as is the case with "The Creature Meets the Executioner," which must be read as it simply defies paraphrase. This is a marvelous book of poems. I think it will eventually be a classic.
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