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POETRY
96 Pages, 6 x 9
Formats: Trade Paper
Trade Paper, $20.00 (US $20.00) (CA $27.00)
Publication Date: October 2019
ISBN 9781931824828
Rights: WOR
Roof Books (Oct 2019)
Bob Perelman’s latest book of poetry, Jack and Jill in Troy, makes use of the rapid clarity of Homer and the elemental incantations of nursery talk to create a compelling array of poems that speak to our present moment with tragic humor and urgent, skeptical directness. A rather R-rated version of Jack and Jill appear in some poems, as if a worldly-wise Mother Goose is addressing young and old in the same breath. In other poems the world of the Iliad appears—permanent war economy, never-finished gender negotiations, continual power disputes, absolute hierarchies arbitrarily enforced—but both these nursery matters and the ancient epic trappings are brought forward to provide a wide-angle frame onto our own situation. The poems in Jack and Jill in Troy are immediately legible, suggestive, and surprising.
Bob Perelman is the author of 14 poetry collections, including Iflife, Virtual Reality, and Ten to One: Selected Poems. He collaborated with his wife, the painter Francie Shaw, on Playing Bodies. His latest critical book is Modernism the Morning After. He taught at UPenn for 25 years and now lives in Berkeley.