SELF NAMED BODY by Jesse Nissim

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Jesse Nissim writes the various bodies that accompany each of us through time, movement, memory, and desire, recognizing “In each body, shards.” Hers is a poetry that accepts that fallibility and frailty (“detested forms”) can reshape themselves to new wisdom (“o sudden forms”)—which is to say that this self-named body dances with the full measure of Lorca’s duende. Here, language, like the body, insists on the ultimate imaginative act: “I will be made real.”
–Elizabeth Robinson

 

These poems are careful—not to say harmless—dissections of what it is to have a body in the world. That body can fail, can love, can crumble, but reading this chapbook, more than anything I am amazed by how much it can contain. There is so much to discover here, thanks to Nissim’s astute, particular (and numerous!) eyes.
–Heather Christle

Rating: *****  [5 of 5 Stars!]

 

 

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SELF NAMED BODY

by Jesse Nissim

$14, paper

Jesse Nissim is the author of Day cracks between the bones of the foot (Furniture Press Books, 2015) and Where They Would Never Be Invited (Black Radish Books, forthcoming in 2016). She is the author of the chapbooks: Nesting instinct (Nous-Zot 2014), Day cracks between the bones of the foot (Furniture Press Books 2013), SELF NAMED BODY (Finishing Line Press 2012), and Alphabet for M (Dancing Girl Press 2007). Her poems and reviews have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Barrow Street, Handsome, H-NGM-N, HTML Giant, Many Mountains Moving, New American Writing, La Petite Zine, Really System, Requited, Shampoo, Sixth Finch, Spoon River Poetry Review and 90s Meg Ryan.

She has been an artist-in-residence at the Ragdale Foundation and the Saltonstall Foundation. She is a Faculty Fellow in the Humanities at Syracuse University, where she teaches and coordinates the first-year seminars.

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