Surreal-Absurd Sampler Jennifer L. Knox
This week we have selection of surreal-absurd poetry from Jennifer L. Knox. Here is her artist statement:
“I like to surprise my reader and myself as I write. To do that, I have to set up a familiar situation on the page in which expectations are clear, then subvert those expectations. To zag instead of zig. Sometimes it's funny. Sometimes it's weird and creepy and feels like a ghost is typing through me.”
(Photo credit: Lisa Hovis).
The following poems all appeared in Bloof Books.
"SHORT PEOPLE" from Drunk by Noon, 2007
"BURT REYNOLDS FAQ." from The Mystery of the Hidden Driveway, 2010
"I CAST THE SHADOW OF A SWORD OVER SKY & SEA," and
"IOWA PLATES," from Days of Shame & Failure, 2016
Jennifer L. Knox's sixth book of poems, Crushing It, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2020. Her poems have appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, McSweeney's, Great American Prose Poems, Best American Erotic Poems, and five times in The Best American Poetry series. She is an Iowa Arts Council Fellow and the proprietor of a small spice-blend company called Saltlickers.
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