The Daily Glance
Jen Tynes' Heron/Girlfriend is a distinct book in that it is filled with a sense of nature--the forests, animals, life. It's not that nature is the only thing Tynes talks about, for she does talk about city things like airport shuttles, but nature pervades her works, almost as though this borders on being a post-speciesist work. Tynes does talk about very human things like desire, husbandry, and myth, but her work is filled with raccoons, deer, yellow jackets, and plants. She also include a little dialect, so in many ways this book feels like one written away from city life. At the same time, it feels completely American.
The black shape of deer withInterestingly, many poems in this collection look like they should make complete sense but do not. They have lines of thought that follow for part of a sentence and then dart off in new directions.
a yellow head hangs over,
listens to
the body of my machine,
the body of my machine
repeats itself
in nature
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