Occupations

by Chris Jennings

The poems in Chris Jennings's long-awaited debut poetry collection are linked at their core by a preoccupation with the ways objects or moments become charged with meaning. Narrative occupies the territory of memory, making the most ordinary things--a classified ad, the odds and ends of an estate auction, graffiti, an antique lancet, a vegetable stand--touchstones and reliquaries of other lives. Sometimes reserved, sometimes exploring what a poet...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889712654
• ISBN13: 9780889712652
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Nightwood Editions
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 7.9"