With an entirely new approach to poetry and the art of collage, Jessy Randall transforms diagrams, schematics, charts, graphs, and other visual documents from very old books into poems that speak to the absurdities, anxieties, and joys of life in this modern age.
Jessy Randall, author of the poetry collections Suicide Hotline Hold Music, There Was an Old Woman, Injecting Dreams into Cows, and A Day in Boyland, was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. Her poems, poetry comics, and diagram poems have appeared in Poetry, Rattle, McSweeney’s, and Asimov’s.
“[Randall's] poems are beyond predicting--some touching, some hilarious--full of fresh insights and some nice wildnesses."
~X.J. Kennedy
Were I a doctor, I'd prescribe Jessy Randall. Specifically, a poem-a-day, although I know the poem will not stay put in its prescription. It'll gurgle, thinking about growing fur. It'll unvelcro itself, step out of itself and morph into many brilliances, into many heavens in grains of sand. No, it'll morph into a thousand, glowing (hugely-glowing) melon spoons. Thank you Jessy Randall.
~Kate Northrop
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