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GCDS-9780872865983 02 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100713030 02 0872865983 03 9780872865983 15 9780872865983 BC 01 313 1 A01 Jarnot, Lisa Lisa Jarnot <p>Born in Buffalo, NY in 1967, Jarnot studied with Robert Creeley at SUNY Buffalo and later earned an MFA at Brown University. The author of four full-length poetry collections and the former editor of the Poetry Project Newsletter, she has also just published Robert Duncan: The Ambassador From Venus (University of California, 2012), the definitive biography of the San Francisco poet. Since the mid-1990s, she has lived in New York City.</p> 01 eng 120 20 poetry 01 <p>Inspired by the Beats, Black Mountain, and the New York School, Lisa Jarnot emerged in the 1990s as one of the foremost poets of the post-Language avant-garde. Joie de Vivre draws on twenty years of work, from the bold fragmentation of her mixed media debut, Some Other Kind of Mission, to the experimental lyricism of her recent Night Scenes. Following the poet's evolution through her engagements with form and music, Joie de Vivre showcases Jarnot's restless virtuosity and relentless curiosity. The archaic, the surreal, the pastoral, the political-no register of language proves too recalcitrant for her expansive sense of song.</p><p><strong>Praise for Lisa Jarnot:</strong></p><p>"Lisa Jarnot . . . suggests that Language Poetry may be mutating, back to the modernism of Stein and Joyce, having been permanently inflected (or deflected) by a late twentieth-century sharpness and exasperation. . . . These are haunting, perplexing narratives of the inenarrable."<br />-John Ashbery, <em>Times Literary Supplement</em></p><p>"Her best effects arrive as you zoom headlong right through her high-energy tangle of dissociation . . . in a particle accelerator where connective sense is bombarded by shards of broken grammar. . . ."<br />-Albert Mobilio, <em>Village Voice</em></p> 02 A selection from twenty years of poetry from one of the key avant-garde women poets of the post-Language generation. 04 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100713030/images/87286100713030L.gif 07 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100713030/images/87286100713030S.gif http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100713030 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 02 20130501