We Can't Tell If the Constellations Love Us - Oakes, Jennifer
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A compelling new book for our times by the author of The Mouths of Grazing Things. "I have long considered Jennifer [Oakes]'s poems to be works of magic, so perhaps WE CAN'T TELL IF THE CONSTELLATIONS LOVE US is a grimoire for our present moment, 'a field where lightning could ignite the world / if you could remember how to get there / and be lightning.' It's a book full of spells for cosmic empathy and word-amulets that can reverse time, transform a reckless species, or heal a single heart. But this spell book acknowledges the limitations of words, too, in poems where the oppositional--aging…mehr

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A compelling new book for our times by the author of The Mouths of Grazing Things. "I have long considered Jennifer [Oakes]'s poems to be works of magic, so perhaps WE CAN'T TELL IF THE CONSTELLATIONS LOVE US is a grimoire for our present moment, 'a field where lightning could ignite the world / if you could remember how to get there / and be lightning.' It's a book full of spells for cosmic empathy and word-amulets that can reverse time, transform a reckless species, or heal a single heart. But this spell book acknowledges the limitations of words, too, in poems where the oppositional--aging and adolescence, sex and depression--illustrates the inability to force language to make the meanings we desire. Fortunately, one impulse is always hidden inside the other, and so making life from death becomes [Oakes]'s greatest incantatory turn: 'Each spoken thing is a harness / to morning, which is far away, but promised, which is far away, / but coming with the light by which we'll assess the remains.' Thank goodness for poets and witches like this one." --Keetje Kuipers, author of All Its Charms
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Jennifer Oakes (formerly Jennifer Boyden) is a poet and novelist whose books include The Declarable Future (Four Lakes Prize in Poetry) and The Mouths of Grazing Things (Brittingham Prize in Poetry), both with University of Wisconsin Press. Her novel, The Chief of Rally Tree, won the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature. Jennifer also collaborates with visual artists whose pieces feature Jennifer's work on bridges, license plates, and columnar basalt, among other surfaces. She is a former recipient of the PEN Northwest Wilderness Writing Residency, and a finalist for the Oregon Book Awards. A Minnesota native, Jennifer now lives in Seattle, Washington, where she is a teacher and education consultant.