Fluorescence

In Jennifer K. Dick's first book, Fluorescence, very real places--Paris, Massachusetts, Colorado, Iowa, Morocco--mix into the imagined, into Breughelian villages where there's "a persimmon in the corner knitting." These places are inhabited by varied but always very real bodies, stretching outward from their own edges and encountering, or engendering, a certain luminescence in the process. What happens when we exceed ourselves? When fragments of dream are lifted to the surface and through to something beyond? Clues, keys, indications--all that once seemed certain slips off into code. These poems use language to crack it.

Author: Jennifer Dick
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 10/11/2004
Pages: 89
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.46w x 0.34d
ISBN: 9780820326917

About the Author
JENNIFER K. DICK is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at Paris III: the Sorbonne Nouvelle. She also teaches English at the Université de Marne La Vallée and creative writing at the Women's Institute of Continuing Education and Oxbridge Summer Programs. She lives in Paris.