"The Fool takes us to this basic truth: that when we feel most
unloved and unlovable, we enter the space of endings and
beginnings, the space where we must decide whether or not to
believe. This collection of poetry is thus an article of faith,
poems that dare us-in unflinching terms-to believe. Jean's poetic
emerges in twists of language that hurtle into dangerous places,
steep falls and banked curves that bring us back to consider life's
vital air and light." Afaa Michael Weaver, The Government of Nature
"Jennifer Jean's The Fool asks us, 'Aren't we supposed to see after
time spent in the dark?' And blessedly, the answer is yes: so much
life goes on to breathe and dwell in this exceptional debut
collection: muggy men, hornets, vespers, '...the eyes of these
poems black like beetles.' The Fool gives us a world where '...we
need every red-engine knell to slumber...and then we could wake
stoked to survive.' This is a poetry that does more than survive in
our collective memory: it flashes, it burns." Aimee
Nezhukumatathil, Lucky Fish "When you open Jennifer Jean's new book
The Fool, be ready to travel with her. The title comes from an
archetypal figure in the Tarot cards, one typically imagined as a
wanderer, someone open to life, needing freedom but perhaps
buffeted by it too, a figure not beyond fear, but not afraid of the
dark either. These are also the virtues you'll find in Jennifer
Jean's poems. They travel back to a hardscrabble childhood, and
forward through a young woman's coming of age. She also takes us
inward via dreams and shape-shifting visions, charting thereby some
of the wilder and more difficult areas of the psyche. At each turn
of the journey, we accompany a person in the process of acquiring
hard-earned and utterly worthwhile spiritual wisdom. In effect,
what we witness in these vivid poems is the growth of a soul." Fred
Marchant, Full Moon Boat and The Looking House
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