Jessica Smith
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born
November 07, 1979
gender
female
place of birth
Birmingham, AL, The United States
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Poetry, Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs
influences
Susan Howe, Steve McCaffery, Charles Bernstein, William Blake, Percy Shelley, Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust, Christian Bök, Juliana Spahr, Robert Grenier, Mike Basinski, Lorine Niedecker, Louis Zukofsky, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Martin Hägglund, Ric Royer, Chris Fritton, Michelle Detorie, Alixandra Bamford, a.rawlings, derek beaulieu, K. Lorraine Graham, Lyn Hejinian, Gertrude Stein
about this author
Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, Jessica received her B.A. summa cum laude in English and Comparative Literature: Language Theory and her M.A. in Comparative Literature from SUNY Buffalo, where she participated in the Poetics Program and started the poetry magazine name. She currently resides in Brooklyn where she edits Outside Voices, an umbrella for Outside Voices Books, Take-Home Project Chapbooks, the 2008 Anthology of Younger Poets, and Foursquare magazine. Jessica is the author of one full-length collection of poetry, Organic Furniture Cellar.
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Organic Furniture Cellar: Works on Paper, 2002-2004 (Paperback) by Jessica Smith (Goodreads author!) avg rating 4.33 — 34 ratings — published 2006 |
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Foursquare by Jessica Smith (Goodreads author!) avg rating 4.73 — 16 ratings — published 2006 |
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Zen (paperback / eBook) by Jessica Smith (Goodreads author!) avg rating 5.00 — 6 ratings — published 2007 |
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Sonic Territories: Deleuze and The Politics of Sound in Kafka and Duras (paperback / eBook) by Jessica Smith (Goodreads author!) avg rating 5.00 — 5 ratings — published 2006 2 editions |
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Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art, Vol 37 No 1 by Nat Foster (Editor), Ryan Call , Wade Fletcher avg rating 0.0 — 2 ratings — published 2008 |
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"yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes."
— James Joyce
— James Joyce
"The limits of my language means the limits of my world"
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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language,
perception
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"What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.'"
— Friedrich Nietzsche (The Gay Science with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs)
— Friedrich Nietzsche (The Gay Science with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs)
"To some people
Love is given,
To others
Only Heaven."
— Langston Hughes (The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes)
Love is given,
To others
Only Heaven."
— Langston Hughes (The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes)
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love
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"There was a time when you were not a slave, remember that. You walked alone, full of laughter, you bathed bare-bellied. You say you have lost all recollection of it, remember . . . You say there are no words to describe this time, you say it does not exist. But remember. Make an effort to remember. Or, failing that, invent."
— Monique Wittig
— Monique Wittig
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feminism
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Good Morning Jessica !
Thank you so much for the add !
I appreciate the love and friendship
My upcoming book..."The Kingdom Hall No More" will be out soon so please check it out !
Feel free to visit me anytime
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