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The poems in Jasmine Bailey's 'Sleep and What Precedes It' make an 'argument for the eye' (as Ruskin called it). They are unafraid of beauty, pleasure--'the gleam of semi-permanence.' They take the measure of the earth, 'the heaviness of it, the meanderingness of it' and achieve a wonder from seeing things in their firstness. The lushness of the horizontal axis is crossed by the vertical axis of history, exile, and an autumnal feeling. In the intersection of these two comes a poetry that has 'all the ripe devotion of the created.' It's ardent, alert, and mindful. --Bruce Smith
It is the power of Jasmine Bailey's long-lined and gorgeous poems to 'make simple things holy with (their) excess.' In landscapes where 'the floors of New Jersey woods/ are rendered golden with falling walnuts' or lakes are 'misplaced in heavy mists,' her characters move in urgent, elegant search of what eludes them. These poems braid longing and grief into rich, evocative song. --Gregory Orr
It is the power of Jasmine Bailey's long-lined and gorgeous poems to 'make simple things holy with (their) excess.' In landscapes where 'the floors of New Jersey woods/ are rendered golden with falling walnuts' or lakes are 'misplaced in heavy mists,' her characters move in urgent, elegant search of what eludes them. These poems braid longing and grief into rich, evocative song. --Gregory Orr
About the Author
Jasmine V. Bailey was born in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia and raised in New Jersey. A graduate of George School and Colgate University, she traveled to Argentina on a Fulbright grant before receiving her MFA in poetry at the University of Virginia. She lives in Charlottesville.
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