Rookland - Minkert, Jesse
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Jesse Minkert's Rookland is a place people may go if they want to. Some of the locals rise from the soil in costumes, if dirt could be considered a costume. If a body could be considered a form of transportation, then Rookland is full of the most dangerous rides. Her Majesty loses sleep from the exploits of the Heir Apparent. Melanie grinds up tiger moths to flavor her chocolate milk. Club girls party through generations. Belinda's face is a rainbow, and Collin can't stop washing his hands. Greta sees her childhood end. Bennie has wardrobe problems during a concert. The old man feels himself…mehr

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Jesse Minkert's Rookland is a place people may go if they want to. Some of the locals rise from the soil in costumes, if dirt could be considered a costume. If a body could be considered a form of transportation, then Rookland is full of the most dangerous rides. Her Majesty loses sleep from the exploits of the Heir Apparent. Melanie grinds up tiger moths to flavor her chocolate milk. Club girls party through generations. Belinda's face is a rainbow, and Collin can't stop washing his hands. Greta sees her childhood end. Bennie has wardrobe problems during a concert. The old man feels himself being chewed. Discord on the plaza leads to burning clouds in the streets. Someone spills his drink on a leather seat cushion. Someone else dies and invites his children to inspect his corpse. Marjorie fires up her kiln. A woman named Diana swims through perilous waters. A woman named Christa explodes over Cape Canaveral. A man reads a certain destiny in his sons. The magnificent chaos of Sylvia's hair gets a detailed explanation. Timmy hides the evidence far from the trail. Not all the folks here are people. Hares and vixens run for Her Majesty. The Percheron mare! Robot arms! Mrs. Capuchin has tea with Marv the Constrictor. A shot from the cab of a pickup kills a doe. Everybody hates Linda's dog. Sharks, jellyfish, palominos on locoweed, and of course the rooks, who snatch Timmy's spoor from the wind. The citizens of Rookland wrestle with families, loved ones, their bodies, their minds and the world. They fail and succeed, but for the most part keep trying. They slither, dance, crawl and fly in language that can only have come from the mind of this poet. To travel to Rookland, this book can be your ticket. On the other hand, maybe you're there already. Buy a ticket anyway.
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Jesse Minkert's work has appeared in about fifty literary journals including the Cream City Review, Confrontation, Mount Hope, the Floating Bridge Review, the Minetta Review, Poetry Northwest, Common Knowledge, and Harpur Palate. Thanks to Raven Chronicles, he is a 2016 Pushcart Nominee. Over twenty years he has written about fifty short radio stories that were performed and produced by blind and visually impaired young people in the Blind Youth Audio Project, and many short pieces for the Jack Straw New Media Gallery workshops at the Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, Washington, in collaborations between Jack Straw and Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences. Minkert has collected a wide variety of experiences from the art world and the real world which have made him the writer he is now. His training in the visual arts is the source of his approach to form and design in literature. He has a BFA as a painter and an MA as a sculptor. His work has been displayed in galleries and shows in Houston, Carmel, Humboldt County, and Seattle. He has created many objects in wood, including a six-foot sperm whale from a single piece of western red cedar, which hangs from the ceiling of the Whale Museum in Friday Harbor, Washington. He has been a picture framer, sign maker, hot tub maker, cabinet maker, radio theater producer, and art shipping specialist for galleries and museums. He founded the nonprofit corporation, Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences, which has provided arts access for blind and visually impaired people in Washington State for twenty-six years. In that capacity he has kept books, designed programs, written and administered grants, served as a consultant to arts organizations on accessibility issues, and trained access providers. He ran the Audio Description Service in Seattle, coordinated around 700 live descriptions of theatrical productions, trained describers, described about 160 performances himself, and conducted descriptive tours of exhibits such as the King Tut exhibition, the MoPoP Guitar Gallery, and the Olympic Sculpture Park. He wrote upwards of 600 preshow descriptions of sets and characters for plays. He wrote and recorded descriptive tracks for art videos and access training videos. His theatrical plays and radio plays have won awards. Fifty-five years of living with Type 1 diabetes have led Minkert to address in his work themes of health and the body. In 1981, diabetic retinopathy threatened to take away his vision. This critical moment helped him to decide to commit less to the visual arts and to focus his creative efforts on writing.