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9th Annual Juried Reading Third Place
Jenn Morea
A disarming simplicity supports Morea's poems, transparent
and substantive at the same time. A place where the form
serves the thinking, the feeling, the subtle nuance of relationship.
The pronouns of "I", "you" "we"
seem to speak for the rest of us, then disappear. They are
shadows and roots of the human. Less is more, perhaps. Dichotomies,
paradoxes as in
One said you
Are. Another
Said you are
Who.
Maybe we can pare ourselves down to these less busy strategies
and absence of clutter, and read these in the context of
a larger philosophy. "The way the body keeps."
I'll never get over it both "embodies" and soars.
-- Anne Waldman
Jenn Morea is the author of where the ending begins (nappyhead
press) and Assistant Editor of dream in yourself
(Tia Chucha Press). She has an M.F.A. from Goddard College
and teaches for Young Chicago Authors and the Snow City
Arts Foundation. .
What was late
still came.
What went ahead
turned back.
One knock-knocked.
Another asked
who's there. What
went in
crossed, came out
knotted. What
was inarticulate scratched,
bit. What
was covered undid
its darkness.
One said you
are. Another
said you are
who.
-- Jenn Morea
© 2003 The Poetry Center of Chicago
All Rights Revert Back to the Author Upon Publication.
No Portion of this poem may be reproduced without the expressed
permission of the author.
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