Tomorrow's Bright White Light - Softcover

Conn, Jan

9781988040141: Tomorrow's Bright White Light

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1988040140 ISBN 13: 9781988040141

Publisher: Tightrope Books, Inc., 2016

Acclaimed poet Jan Conn’s latest book, Tomorrow’s Bright White Light, offers poems as phenomenological guides to an approximation of a future “truth.” The collection includes poems about odd, secretive childhood events and poems that visit the badlands of adolescence from both male and female viewpoints. Some poems deal with the struggles of contemporary life in its many guises, while others derive from Conn’s time in Latin America. Obvious or not, all of the poems in this stunning collection are linked, creating a personal mosaic of the poet’s many lives and experiences.

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About the Author:

Canadian poet Jan Conn was brought up in southeastern Quebec. She now lives in Great Barrington, Massachusetts and is a professor of Biomedical Sciences whose research is focused on the genetics and ecology of mosquitoes. She has published eight previous books of poetry, most recently Botero’s Beautiful Horses and Edge Effects.

Review:

"Any reader of Jan Conn will be made aware of her philosophical voice which she seamlessly blends with her poetry, dexterously heightened by scientific language or heightened diction . . . the qualities of a dream." —Anne Burke, poets.ca

"The humanity and vulnerability of Conn’s voice, which shows itself in controlled glimpses, is one that measures its surroundings, and finds hope in that place where two modes of attention, objectivity and sensitivity to beauty, meet each other with profound respect." —Sonnet L'Abbe, Malahat Review

"Future-oriented, even hopeful poetics... Conn’s work is timely in its depictions of political precarity as well as environmental collapse... poems muster their details to paint almost ekphrastic scenes through Conn’s always masterful diction." —Lise Gaston, Arc Poetry Magazine

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