Hard Jolts of Hope - Prusinska, Natalia
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All of us, from bumpkins to artists, are always picking up and carrying on. Intimacies, skepticism, transformation, scars: these are things that also happen to be common to, and woven into, the fabric of lyric poems. In Natalia Prusinska's Hard Jolts of Hope, we encounter a poet whose preoccupations take us to a place where Emerson's remark that the mission of American poetry is to show us the power of surprise comes to mind. Here the "jolt" of the title lands us squarely in the ambit of this aesthetic, passionate and stunning in its immediacy and frankness. The language is terse and sharp,…mehr

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All of us, from bumpkins to artists, are always picking up and carrying on. Intimacies, skepticism, transformation, scars: these are things that also happen to be common to, and woven into, the fabric of lyric poems. In Natalia Prusinska's Hard Jolts of Hope, we encounter a poet whose preoccupations take us to a place where Emerson's remark that the mission of American poetry is to show us the power of surprise comes to mind. Here the "jolt" of the title lands us squarely in the ambit of this aesthetic, passionate and stunning in its immediacy and frankness. The language is terse and sharp, bristling with intelligence and precision. Think of a mashup of Creeley, Olds, and Lockwood. And feelingly memorable. That's the thing that every poet wants and Prusinska can claim. -David Rigsbee, author of This Much I Can Tell You and Not Alone in My Dancing: Essays and Reviews
Autorenporträt
In this inaugural collection, Natalia Prusinska investigates the impact of unrelenting, chronic memories, indecision and choice, and a desperation for life. The poems lurch forward-sudden flare-ups of trauma, poverty, hope, elation, and queer experience. In Hard Jolts of Hope Natalia writes with impulse and verve. In the same poem, the speaker brings up drunk sexting, "caching desire in texts", and God; she integrates physics and theology with her memories, speaking of love in one poem as "high-energy collisions between particles of ordinary matter". She throws readers over her shoulders and carries them to new places, whether they're ready or not.Natalia Prusinska is a queer, Polish American poet. Her poetry has been found in publications such as Storm Cellar and High Shelf Press.