Gray Jacobik creates poems out of the mundane and extraordinary moments of our lives. Mature, elegant, and crackling with energy, this volume won the 2001 Associated Writing Programs' Award in Poetry.
Winner of the 2001 Associated Writing Programs' Award in Poetry Selected by Marilyn Chin A poet with an artist's eye, a painter with an ear for language, Gray Jacobik creates poems out of the mundane and extraordinary moments of our lives. Mirroring the structure of a Pollock painting, elegizing Larry Levis and avocados, reflecting on Johnny Depp's "terribly surreal" life, embarking upon a seventy-two-line meditation on the color blue, exposing a lover's--or a mother's--secrets, Jacobik's poems are mature, elegant, and crackling with energy.
