Jacket 40: Hill on Lisa Jarnot's Some Other Kind of Mission:

In a quick dozen years, Lisa Jarnot has established herself as one of the most compelling poets publishing today. Always on the hunt for the “new” in poetry (is there such a thing? not flarf, not conceptualism), I look to Jarnot, seizing on any new work of hers that appears. When I chose to review Some Other Kind of Mission (SOKM), though, I didn’t know it was a 2008 reprint (3^rd printing) of Jarnot’s first full-length book from 1996. At first I was disappointed that this book was “old.”

     Then as I read SOKM and re-read two of her recent books, Black Dog Songs (BDS) and Night Scenes (NS), I realized that SOKM serves as a rudimentary map of Jarnot’s current praxis...

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Comments

[Chrisarigo]

Crag: I LOVE that book. In fact, as a grad student, I did a scroll homage and sent it to Lisa. It's on her kitchen wall. Cool. But not nearly as cool as the punk-rock band she was in. Best, Chris