On the Cave You Live In

by Philip Jenks

Poetry. ON THE CAVE YOU LIVE IN is Philip Jenks' first full-length collection. His poems are both intimate and strange, encompassing personal history and the politics of Appalachia, epileptic seizures and Baptist glossolalia, memory cells and Kentucky coal mines. His cave describes the limits of what's known, and his poems explore the "spaces between the aura and the jolt." "At various turns hieratic and profane, their blur the blur--in equal parts--of the confessed and the prophetic, these poems direct us to the language that starts just past 'that point/ where nothing is not.' Cassandra lives there; and Stein--and so does Philip Jenks"--Carl Phillips.

Genres: Poetry

50 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/prog...

http://fence.fenceportal.org/v12n2/je...

http://voca.arizona.edu/index.php?rea...

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archi...

http://www.h-ngm-n.com/h_ngm_n-6/Phil...

http://www.culturalsociety.org/mini02...

http://deliriouslapel.blogspot.com/20...

www.puertodelsol.org/jenks-muench-two...

http://gutcultcom/Site/litjourn8/fron...

Books include On the Cave You Live In (Flood) and My First Painting will be The Accuser (Zephyr Press 2005). Also chapbooks – The Elms Left Elm Street (Plane Bukt, 1994) and How Many of You Are You? (Dusie, 2006). I collaborate with Simone Muench. Our full-length book, "Disappearing Address" was published by BlazeVox Books, 2010. Our collaborative chapbook, "Little Visceral Carnival" was published by Cinematheque Press, 2009. We have published in The Canary, Zoland, Moonlit, barrelhouse, and Eleven Eleven and elsewhere. My poems have appeared in Chicago Review, Traverse, GutCult, h_ngm_n, The Canary, The Gig, Monkey Puzzle, LVNG, The Poker...others

I am NOT in ANY way the author of The Global-Investor Book of Investing Rules: Invaluable Advice from 150 Master Investors, 500 of the Most Witty, Acerbic & Erudite Things Ever Said about Money, Stock Market Trading Rules: Collected Wisdom From 80 International Stock Market Experts, The Investors' Resource Book, Logic Problems for Money Minds: 42 Conundrums, Problems and Riddles to Test Your Brain, The Harriman Book Of Investing Rules: Invaluable Advice from 150 Master Investors , The Official High-Flier's Handbook: How to Succeed in Business Without an MBA , The Book of Investing Rules: Rules on Investing from the World's Leading Fund Managers, Sector Analysts, Traders, Economists and Financial Journalists ....All due respects to the Philip Jenks, as an anticapitalist
radical, these are simply not the sorts of books I would write about capitalism. Good ol' goodreads has yet to change this and has combined us. So, I contain multitudes. I didn't write those books.
.http://fence.fenceportal.org/v12n2/je...

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archi...

http://www.h-ngm-n.com/h_ngm_n-6/Phil...

http://www.culturalsociety.org/mini02...

http://deliriouslapel.blogspot.com/20...

www.puertodelsol.org/jenks-muench-two...

http://gutcultcom/Site/litjourn8/fron...

Reviews

[Mel · Rating 1 out of 5]

I almost never, ever, say that I dislike poetry. I despised this book.

[Beverly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Heard Jenks read at Myopic Bookstore last weekend. Lovely and entertaining. The darkness of the text contrasted with his delightfully amusing personality, plus the mark (? a love bite perhaps?) on his neck.

[Bethany · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm not sure. Sometimes the lines weren't pieced together enough as a whole for me to really get something from the poem. Maybe this is a case of it being more powerful heard than read.