Brilliant Corners

Overview

An ocean of language ebbs and floods in wide swaths of print as the pages turn here like waves, though the ocean’s history with land is presumably far vaster than human language’s history in the world. The language of the ocean, of Earth’s formation, permeates this volume that begins over and over again, as its human language revels in its own shortcomings. “My freedom is so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles.”

Author Biography

Jeanne Heuving is the 01/01/2022 Judith E. Wilson Fellow in Poetry at Cambridge University, UK. She is the author of Transducer (Chax Press), MOOD INDIGO (selva oscura press), and Incapacity (Chiasmus Press); and the editor of Nathaniel Mackey, Destination Out: Essays On His Work (U of Iowa Press) and the coeditor along with Tyrone Williams of Inciting Poetics: Thinking and Writing Poetry (Recencies Series, University of New Mexico Press). Her monograph The Transmutation of Love and AvantGarde Poetics appears in the Modern and Contemporary Poetics series (U of Alabama Press). Heuving is a professor in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Science program at the University of Washington (UW) Bothell and is on the graduate faculty in the English Department at UW Seattle. She founded the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics at UW Bothell and served as its first director. She is the recipient of grants from the Fulbright Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Simpson Humanities Center, and the Beinecke Library at Yale (H.D. Fellowship).