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“Two Poems” from I ENTERED WITHOUT WORDS: by Jody Gladding.
Published by Princeton University Press on Sep 13, 2022.
Copyright © 2022 by Jody Gladding.
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Jody Gladding is a poet and translator whose most recent poetry collection, I entered without words, was published in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets in fall 2022. She is also the author of the spiders my arms (Ashata Press, 2018) and Translations from Bark Beetle (Milkweed Editions, 2014). Her many translations include the forthcoming Second Star by Phillipe Delerm (Archipelago Books, 2023) and Lichens: Toward a Minimal Resistance by Vincent Zonca (Polity Press, 2023). She has received a French-American Foundation Translation Prize, Whiting Award, and Yale Younger Poets Prize. She lives in East Calais, Vermont where her work explores the places that language and landscape converge.
Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton University
"A delicate and dynamic work, one that reaches toward a painterly simultaneity. One can, as the title suggests, enter the poems without words, only to find fields of them scattered across the pages, in spacious formations, at times rippling or craggy, ready to be combined and recombined."
—Heather Green, Poetry Foundation
"Formally innovative. . . . [An] impressionistic, lyric work with an experimental edge."
—Publishers Weekly
"[An] intriguing new collection. . . . Readers with a taste for experimental poetry will be delighted."
—Seven Days
"An exciting odyssey through . . . three-dimensional pages, where sparse words make up what looks like gravitational fields."
—Susan McCabe, Los Angeles Review of Books
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