Slide Rule

by Jen Hofer

Poetry. Originally from the Bay Area, Jen Hofer is a poet and translator who now divides her time between Mexico City and Los Angeles. She is currently editing and translating an anthology of contemporary experimental poetry by Mexican women. Although this is Hofer's first full-length book, her poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines and helped develop her reputation for pushing the borders of experimental contemporary poetry. "this beach, pebbled and public and musicless save / for the traffic which saves, ubiquitous, no one" (from "(october)/sidewalks").

Genres: Poetry

90 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2002

About the author

Jen Hofer is a poet and translator originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. Her recent publications include Sin puertas visibles: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Mexican Women (University of Pittsburgh Press and Ediciones Sin Nombre, 2003), slide rule (subpress, 2002), and the chapbooks lawless (Seeing Eye Books, 2003) and sexoPUROsexoVELOZ (translations of poetry by Dolores Dorantes, Seeing Eye Books, 2004). Her next books will be a full-length translation of Dorantes’ sexoPUROsexoVELOZ, (Kenning Editions 2007), a translation of Laura Solórzano’s lobo de labio, (Action Books, 2006), a collaboration with poet and musician Patrick Durgin (Atelos, 2007), and a book-length series of anti-war poems, titled one (Palm Press, 2008). Her poems and translations can be found in recent issues of 1913, Aufgabe, Bomb, Bombay Gin, Primary Writing and War and Peace. She lives in Los Angeles, where she teaches poetics, works as a court interpreter, and is happily a founding member of the City of Angels Ladies’ Bicycle Association, also known as The Whirly Girls.

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[Andrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

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