The Procedure - Softcover

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About the futility and incompleteness of language which yet holds much of our temptation and desire in its sensual tangibility This book of poems demonstrates an original voice that is palpable in every poem. The world created in these poems is alluring, yet dangerous Clearly, here is a poet alive to language and the world in a unique way. Kenny Fries, author of Body, Remember: A Memoir and Desert Walking. What did we expect? asks Stevenson in the Day We Died. Her readers can expect, and will be grateful to find, honest, urgent questioning; longing; a careful, understated wit; curiosity about language; and, despite the disappointments and uncertainty, no small measure of hope. Sima Rabinowitz, author of The Jewish Fake Book and Murmuration In The Procedure, JodiAnn Stevenson's prose poems attempt to capture the unease between two people, the unraveling of a relationship, the tiny chips that serve to fracture what seemed to be whole. This collection is the portrait of a woman searching for the words to describe the heartbreaking, tentative fragility of human connection. Jeannine Hall Gailey, author of Becoming the Villainess