Mined Muzzle Velocity - Softcover

Fortin, Jennifer H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0982955359 ISBN 13: 9780982955352

Publisher: Lowbrow Press LLC, 2011

Synopsis

These missives from the great state of Flux reveal a relentless thinking-machine, one that has “travelled to a new emotional lodge” and sent back seemingly quotidian observations and queries that accrue before we know it into something arresting, amorphous, and wild. Like prayer, Fortin’s side of the story is intimate, cosmic, beseeching, and often beautifully unhinged. Reader, be a Dear; be one of the story’s other sides. -Mark Bibbins The tragic, charming, funny, sadness of these poems is how they insist upon, resist, throw themselves on the mercy of, hope for, a companion. The various modes of address in the beginnings of the poems reflect how a person who craves intimacy, but is very unsure of getting it, approaches another. In this way they represent metonymically the condition of poetry in the world. Also these poems are suffused with the terrible pain of interminable time passing: they always sign off hopefully with the weird ambivalent “Yrs.,” which after a while starts to look to me as much like an abbreviation for “Years” as “Yours.” The language is clear and direct, but also skips like a favorite record: “Dear,/This made me think of you./ Don’t know how much longer I’ll be here// how much more I can take. A person told/ me I had eaten plenty holiday & I breathed,/ how much? The amount one can want/ fails to account for me. Know what I mean?” I do. -Matthew Zapruder

About this title

About the Author:

Mined Muzzle Velocity is Jennifer H. Fortin’s first book. Her work has appeared in, among other places, Action, Yes, alice blue, Blackbird, BlazeVOX, Coldfront, Copper Nickel, Court Green, Everyday Genius, GlitterPony, H_NGM_N, LIT, Sink Review, and TYPO. Dancing Girl Press published her chapbook If Made Into a Law in 2011. Another chapbook, Nicole C. (Apartment 4), was published as part of the Dusie Kollektiv in 2011. Another is forthcoming from Poor Claudia. With three other poets, she founded and edits LEVELER. She has been named a Finalist for the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Fellowship. Fortin is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Bulgaria 2004-2006). For more information, visit www.jenniferhfortin.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lowbrow Press LLC
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0982955359
• ISBN 13: 9780982955352
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100