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... My husband & I strolled our favorite beach & our respite gave occasion to rescue two critters... A wee snapper that must have been snatched from an inland pond by bird or kid & a massive (ancient?) dragonfly. Each was tangling with the shore, getting pummeled by waves. The dragonfly on the walk down, the turtle on our return, each attempting to flee the large hands of a would-be benefactor. But the wings took time to dry & a safe creek bank was some distance off. So they accompanied us a good portion of our way. What a gift to carry them or walk beside their carriage. What wonders we are given a time to hold....

read the rest in the latest O is for Octopus stack...& check out upcoming tour dates...

https://jenssread.substack.com/p/a-rescue-a-memory-a-book-tour-a-wedding

In my wildest dreams I could not have imagined a review that would floor me like this. Like if you said, hey Jen, one day the rockstar poet Charlotte Pence is going to review one of your books and...like, no big deal... compare it to BEOWULF, and it's gonna appear in THE RUMPUS. I would say get out. And if you said, no really. And it will begin,

"Some books you meet and forget their names. Some books you meet and recognize their faces. Some books, this book, you meet and know you’ll never encounter another like it again."

Then I'd say, I don't see how I can write the thing that lives up to that review. I'd say, good thing time travel isn't real.

But Charlotte did write it. And I hope you'll read it. I hope you'll adopt your own Boys Behind Glass, maybe one for you & one for a friend, that way the boys, ever so lonesome, can keep in touch with each other.

Walloping gratitude to Charlotte Pence & the Rumpus & all the folks who have given this strange, digressive book a look see & love.

Review: Jennifer Sperry Steinorth's "Boys Behind Glass" - The Rumpus This digressive style reminded me of a medievalist’s lecture I recently caught by accident—slipping into a nearly empty lecture hall, an unplanned digression of my own time. He was talking about the digressions in Beowulf, moments when the poem veers from monster-slaying to recount the Finn epis...

A couple of new posts up at O is for Octopus substack...

https://open.substack.com/pub/jenssread/p/hot-take?r=w3xl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Friends, have you devoured Jenny Molberg's The Court of No Record yet? A powerhouse commute-in form & syntax- Receipts for revising trauma's sentence- So. Stinking. Smart. Check it out!

Super geeked to share this forthcoming monster dropping THIS FALL! Now available for pre-order!

What is it? Here's rockstar Jenny Molberg's take, "Boys Behind Glass opens a door hidden behind a mirror--and I fell straight through. Part lookbook, part feminist archive, this weird, wise, dazzling, and genre-defying collaboration flips the historically male gaze inside out. In conversation with Jenny Walton's haunting watercolor portrait series, "Match/Enemy," Jennifer Sperry Steinorth sifts through fragmented narratives to uncover the complexities of testimony, embodied trauma, justice, and complicity. Where silence and spectacle have long sheilded power, this book holds its provocative glare. Ok, Archaic Torso of Apollo--I see you."