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Jennifer’s 2019 Year in Books
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Trinity Sight
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2019
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7 editions
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Landscape with Headless Mama
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2016
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Girl with Death Mask
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2018
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5 editions
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Protection Spell
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2017
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3 editions
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Lifeline
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2017
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Rosa's Einstein
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2019
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3 editions
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The Daughter's Curse
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2018
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They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing
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2018
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Yellow Chair Review 2015 Anthology
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Fiolet & Wing: An Anthology of Domestic Fabulist Poetry
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Merry Xmas, Headless Mama Returns, & Stranger Things
“O burst O pop O clank O fuck my swollen bell of brain. If no candles light when we scratch the match, has God forsaken?” (You can read the whole poem here, online at the POETRY Foundation). As a mama poet, I struggle sometimes with feeling less important or relevant or current than if I […]
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Gorgeous, powerful collection that showcases the strength and wisdom and surreal/magical beauty of women writing themselves and their experiential power -- revamps/revitalizes/reimagines the space of the "domestic realm" and erases the line between
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"This beautiful book is like nothing I’ve ever read, but if I had to compare it to something, I’d say it’s THE LEFTOVERS meets GODS OF JADE AND SHADOW. Calliope Santiago, an anthropologist and college professor, sees a “shock of light” on her drive..."
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"Trinity Sight is a fast-paced, page turning novel from the onset. It is truly fascinating how poet/author, Jennifer Givhan, masterfully weaves indigenous oral-history and ancestral connections into a contemporary apocalyptic setting. It was hard t..."
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"This book deals with climate change in a compelling and fresh way, exploring the intersection between ancient intuitive wisdom and contemporary academic intellectual distance. It's a post-apocalyptic narrative that feels somehow hopeful; there's a..."
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“The last time I had a dick in my mouth I was dying
alfalfa withered in rows unable to separate desire
from pain There are poets for whom this throbbing
is healing My Frida rail-impaled my
chingona fighting for whole even after gangrene
She loved her body though it betrayed”
― Lifeline
alfalfa withered in rows unable to separate desire
from pain There are poets for whom this throbbing
is healing My Frida rail-impaled my
chingona fighting for whole even after gangrene
She loved her body though it betrayed”
― Lifeline
“My god
is frozen-mouth. She is get-out-of-this-town-
or-hell-freezes-over. She is paycheck
to paycheck. Each night when she goes to bed, my god
kisses her kids’ clean faces, then, thanking herself, her own.”
― Protection Spell
is frozen-mouth. She is get-out-of-this-town-
or-hell-freezes-over. She is paycheck
to paycheck. Each night when she goes to bed, my god
kisses her kids’ clean faces, then, thanking herself, her own.”
― Protection Spell
“What I’m asking is will watching The Discovery
Channel with my young black boy instead
of the news coverage of the riot funerals riot arrests
riot nothing changes riots be enough to keep him
from harm?”
― Protection Spell
Channel with my young black boy instead
of the news coverage of the riot funerals riot arrests
riot nothing changes riots be enough to keep him
from harm?”
― Protection Spell
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“My god
is frozen-mouth. She is get-out-of-this-town-
or-hell-freezes-over. She is paycheck
to paycheck. Each night when she goes to bed, my god
kisses her kids’ clean faces, then, thanking herself, her own.”
― Protection Spell
is frozen-mouth. She is get-out-of-this-town-
or-hell-freezes-over. She is paycheck
to paycheck. Each night when she goes to bed, my god
kisses her kids’ clean faces, then, thanking herself, her own.”
― Protection Spell
“What I’m asking is will watching The Discovery
Channel with my young black boy instead
of the news coverage of the riot funerals riot arrests
riot nothing changes riots be enough to keep him
from harm?”
― Protection Spell
Channel with my young black boy instead
of the news coverage of the riot funerals riot arrests
riot nothing changes riots be enough to keep him
from harm?”
― Protection Spell
“The balding headstones
of the others—quarantined
from their own mothers & sisters & daughters—
I wondered if they, like us, were strange
alloys of sadness & forgetting
the words to the songs.”
― Landscape with Headless Mama
of the others—quarantined
from their own mothers & sisters & daughters—
I wondered if they, like us, were strange
alloys of sadness & forgetting
the words to the songs.”
― Landscape with Headless Mama
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