Louis Jenkins' poems seem at first to be ordinary details of familiar life laid out in familiar rhythms and everyday language. But reading carefully we discover extraordinary works of human memory.

An Almost Human Gesture: Prose Poems

Literature & Fiction

Louis Jenkins

Poetry

Ally Pr

"Concrete Surrealism" is a phrase that conveys something of Jenkins' style. Students of poetry will not want to miss him, they'll want to pore over his remarkable art. Henry Berry, Small Press Book Review

All Tangled Up With the Living: Poems

50 prose poems and a conversation with Garrison Keillor

North of the Cities

Will o' the Wisp Books

European Shoes

Prose Poems from 35 years with a forward by Mark Rylance

Before You Know It: Prose Poems 1970-2005

New and selected prose poems, including all poems from Nice Fish, the play.
 The poems Tin Flag are as solid and smooth as a Lake Superior stone you read one out loud and you want to keep turning it over in your mind, knowing it is the key to something just beyond the horizon. I especially like the way they combine humor and heartbreak so that neither one overwhelms the other. Louis Jenkins is our Dostoevsky, our Chekhov. He tells us where we ve been and helps us imagine where we might be going. It s nice to have the poems from the play, Nice Fish, gathered together, and it s good to see that Louis Jenkins s Magnum Opus is well underway.
Joyce Sutphen

Tin Flag: New and Selected Prose Poems

A collection of new and revised prose poems by the critically acclaimed poet, Louis Jenkins. Jenkins is the co-author, with Mark Rylance, of the play Nice Fish.

In the Sun Out of the Wind

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Books by Louis Jenkins