On the Cave You Live in

by Philip Jenks

Poetry. ON THE CAVE YOU LIVE IN is Philip Jenks' first full-length collection. His poems are both intimate and strange, encompassing personal history and the politics of Appalachia, epileptic seizures and Baptist glossolalia, memory cells and Kentucky coal mines. His cave describes the limits of what's known, and his poems explore the "spaces between the aura and the jolt." "At various turns hieratic and profane, their blur the blur--in equal parts--of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0971005923
• ISBN13: 9780971005921
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Flood Editions
• Length: 50 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.