Cutting Room - by Jessica De Koninck (Paperback)

About the Book

Anything superfluous or easy has been dispensed with in the cutting room, and the scenes that Jessica de Koninck summons for what she calls "the movie of my life" are the urgent ones that seem to come unbidden: "I want to shut the lights on memory, / but the video brain keeps replaying." -Ted Deppe

Book Synopsis

The vast and minute details that lodge within the words "my life" come forth resplendently in these poems. Jessica de Koninck is fluent in the impossible Esperanto of God and cinder blocks, Elvis and glue guns but, also, understandably haunted. Life very much includes death in her poems, the way knowledge includes ignorance. A stubborn, jumpy vitality abides, capable of real truth-telling as it examines, discards, clutches, praises and murmurs about the relics of love and grief. --Baron Wormser