| The Enchanted House |
| Beth Janzen |
In her first full collection of poems, The
Enchanted House, Beth Janzen explores the
seductions and abductions of a self under the
spell of fierce enchantments that are physical
and metaphysical, blessing and curse. In her
House, Janzen constructs stories of interior of
the house of the psyche, the body, the book.
Rigorous in curiosity and intellect, Janzen's
poems are a delicate conversation between the
truth of things as they are and things as they are
imagined. They witness the violence and
innocence of thoughts and actions stripped of
generative power or constrained by pernicious
fates, irresistible choices, and the intractable
wills of domestic gods.
Using precise in form and language, Janzen
traces the jubilant, wrenching, rough couplings
and uncouplings at the core of human
relationship and of metaphor.
Enchanted House, Beth Janzen explores the
seductions and abductions of a self under the
spell of fierce enchantments that are physical
and metaphysical, blessing and curse. In her
House, Janzen constructs stories of interior of
the house of the psyche, the body, the book.
Rigorous in curiosity and intellect, Janzen's
poems are a delicate conversation between the
truth of things as they are and things as they are
imagined. They witness the violence and
innocence of thoughts and actions stripped of
generative power or constrained by pernicious
fates, irresistible choices, and the intractable
wills of domestic gods.
Using precise in form and language, Janzen
traces the jubilant, wrenching, rough couplings
and uncouplings at the core of human
relationship and of metaphor.
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| Persephone at 13 He's brought another gift My mother will be worried I hide it with the apple seeds and the snakeskin purse under my bed, next to the wall He's a pig! my mother says pacing the kitchen floor Her hands are sticky with bread dough and her apron strings: undone I am silent remembering His body erupting from the lake the light trapped above his lip his darkness between my legs He's promised he'll come for me split the world like a seed and carry me far flying in his dusky chariot I hug my knees to my chest, with my fate, knowing I can skip myself across eternity like a sharp flat stone |
| "The poetry in Janzen's Night Vanishes has the elegance and inwardness of Japanese Haiku, and yet it is full of an intense and personal music. How can anything so delicate be so sharp?" - Joseph Sherman, author of Beautiful Veins "The stunning juxtapositions within these poems startle, intrigue, and haunt the reader." - Dianne Morrow, author of Long Reach Home |
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