Jennifer Perrine's Blog - Posts Tagged "jess-x-chen"
I'm Wearing Fur Pajamas
Michelle Tudor and Peter Barnfather have put together a beautiful new issue of
Wildness
, including powerful work by writers like Jess X Chen and Claudia D. Hernández, as well as a cover photograph by Anfal Shamsudeen that left me dreaming of galaxies. (My dreams don't tend to get cosmic very often. They're usually of the navigating-an-unfamiliar-city variety, or else involve being at school and discovering that I've forgotten the location of a classroom, the materials I need to teach, or my locker combination. Some anxieties die hard.)
And yes, I've got a poem in the new issue, too. It's the first in a series of poems, all called "Absence Makes." Jeanette Winterson writes about "the nearness of the wound to the gift." For me, the wound is always about absence, and I keep examining its ragged edges, looking for (and trying to make) the gift.
And yes, I've got a poem in the new issue, too. It's the first in a series of poems, all called "Absence Makes." Jeanette Winterson writes about "the nearness of the wound to the gift." For me, the wound is always about absence, and I keep examining its ragged edges, looking for (and trying to make) the gift.
