Jennifer Firestone

Jennifer Firestone is the author of five books of poetry including her most recent collection Story by Ugly Duckling Presse. Firestone is the co-editor of two anthologies, the recently published MIT collection Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-garde Poetry (co-edited with Marcella Durand) and Letters To Poets: Conversations about Poetics, Politics and Community (co-edited with Dana Teen Lomax). Firestone co-authored the collection LITtle by LITtle with photographer and urban geographer, Laura Y. Liu. She is an Associate Professor of Literary Studies and Chair of Writing at The New School’s Eugene Lang College.

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Efflorescence

How can I explain to a pedestrian the joy of riding my bicycle through the drippy streets at night, my single headlight bobbing, the light sharp on one side, cuts through a tree having a dream of itself, everything tethered to its twin-dark, thoughts cast a shadow, shadows cast a word if you lower yourself to a hush, the word is ordinary like a word, is cabbage. Sometimes smoke.

Efflorescence : Gloss