ONLY $9.90 DELIVERY INFO
Jana Prikrylis the author ofNo MatterandThe After Party, which was one ofThe New York Times's Best Poetry Books of the Year. Her poems have appeared inThe New Yorker,The London Review of Books,The Paris Review, andThe New York Review of Books, where she is a senior editor and the poetry editor.
No Matter is one of the most original, bracing, and unsettling books I've read in years. Its voice is mesmerizing, but in a calm, unnerving way. Its vision, slant and riveting. And the mind at work sees into the unseen and is staggering. --Jorie Graham, via Twitter One of the most original voices of her generation has produced a second brilliant book. These poems, urban and urbane, offbeat and stringent, welcome the reader with a beguiling lucidity; but that sparkling surface, as in the best John Ashbery poems, hides an obliquity that turns out to be provocative and sometimes complexly self-unraveling. Nothing is quite as it seems--'like the East River pretending / to be a river when it's merely an appetite'--and the world is estranged and transfigured in this enchanting work. My idea of the good life would be a new Jana Prikryl poem, served daily with my breakfast, till the end of my days. --James Wood No Matter sounds, to me, like the way we live now. . . . Prikryl is someone who came to New York as an adult, and her demographics inform the emotional life in her work - just as they did with Whitman. --Stephanie Burt, Harper's
