Synopses & Reviews
Poetry. Artwork by Emilie Clark. "Lisa Jarnot writes the meter of everything in A PRINCESS MAGIC PRESTO SPELL. As she does this, she reminds us what matters. In case you don't know, it is the small animals and the plum trees and the mothers of friends and the moon and her dreams. This book is funny and yet also is an elegy. I read it. And then I read it several more times because I didn't want it to end. It is that lovely."—Juliana Spahr
Synopsis
Poetry. Artwork by Emilie Clark.
Synopsis
Poetry. Artwork by Emilie Clark. "Lisa Jarnot ... suggests that Language Poetry may be mutating, back to the modernism of Stein and Joyce, having been permanently inflected (or deflected) by a late twentieth-century sharpness and exasperation."—John Ashbery
About the Author
Lisa Jarnot is the author of four full-length books of poetry; JOIE DE VIVRE: SELECTED POEMS 1992-2012 (City Lights Publishers) was published in 2013. Her Robert Duncan: The Ambassador from Venus was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2012. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.