Swallow by Jendi Reiter

Description

Swallow
Poems by Jendi Reiter
Winner of the 2008 Flip Kelly Poetry Prize
Part of the Gob Pile Chapbook Series at Amsterdam Press.
34 pages, saddle-stitched.
Release Date: Sept. 5, 2009 (all orders placed before this date will ship on or after this date).

From the Foreword by Editor Cindy M. Kelly:
This is a map. This is a topographical map, a phrenology map, an anatomical map. It is a map of the town in which I grew up. It is a map that traces familiar streets, and on it are scars and gouges and holes left over from pushpins, marking out the places where people I’ve known my whole life lived and died. It is a strange map, and it keeps folding in on itself again and again. It is a heavy map—heavy with the heft of experience, the weight of secrets. It’s a cool, clean map, and if you look at it the right way, you might see a young girl, hair blowing in her face, taking a cool, clean sunbath under a “sky [that] has no furniture in it.” This is her map. It shows her the way to the small things—the things she does not speak of, the things she dares not say aloud. This map is her shelter. It manipulates her perception. It restores her faith, helps her forgive, to know her own body and mind; it reminds.

Ginsberg had a map like this one. Brautigan, too, and Anne Sexton, and all of those poets whispering out from behind the ink with which this map is printed. Out from behind the parchment, from behind the legend, from behind the scale, there are those who impart the wisdom. Jendi Reiter has drawn us a map, and it comes from places we’ve all been. These poems speak loud, and they “speak from the inside.”

Just listen.

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Amsterdam Press / Gob Pile Chapbook Series
6199 Steubenville Road SE
Amsterdam, Ohio 43903.
editor [!at] amsterdampress.net

ISBN 10: 0—9822221—5—7
ISBN 13: 978—0—9822221—5—7

Hand Bound and Printed
in the United States of America
Cover 80 lb. Wausau Royal FiberSunflower (30% PCW)
Text 24 lb. Genesis SMART Papers Snow (100% PCW)

Book design by Cindy M. Kelly
Cover Art by Richard C. Jackson
Designed and Typeset at Amsterdam Press’ Type Kitchen

Amsterdam Press
Cindy Kelly, Founder & Editor
Cathy J. Kelly, Publisher

www.amsterdampress.net

Added on Sep 01, 2009