Fluorescence

Fluoresence is moving. Both emotionally engaging and in motion to match the realities of our moment, Jennifer Dick's poems are accountable to the truths of a violent kaleidoscope world. Terrorism and suicide are part of this landscape, but this poet is equally dedicated to an understanding of the internal tensions of the lyric voice and the human heart. 'The dream [is] already morphosing,' where our loves and lives are broken into shifting fragments and echoes, 're-returned' under threat of erasure. Her gift is to have found in the shards a new language with the energy and beauty of a Delaunay composition: her poems lift up into light all we cherish, all we should most fear to lose.

* author of After I Was Dead *

The project underlying this collection is precision, and Jennifer Dick carries it out beautifully, always keeping her language as sharp and explorative as her questioning. A strong, beautiful book throughout.

* author of Goest *

Jennifer Dick’s painterly use of repeated motif is masterful, expressive, quite extraordinary. 'What isn’t to be trusted is translated': Dick’s translations delineate danger—imminent and experienced—particularly beautifully. Fluorescence includes a variety of poetic approaches; throughout, one feels the poet’s intelligent presence and a moving 'hope to verify.'

* author of The Seventy Prepositions: Poems *

'I am just a streak of color passing.