<p>Poetry. "Allows observation, love, memory, confusion, and explanation to intermix and play"--Juliana Spahr. "Regions of cultural conflict and reconnection...the syntax that delves there is sincere and soft as well as gritty..."--Brenda Iijima. Jill Magi is author of the chapbook Cadastral Map (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), as well as several self-published handmade books. Her visual art, poetry, and prose have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Jacket, CutBank Poetry, NEW REVIEW OF LITERATURE, AUFGABE, CHAIN, and Pierogi Press. Jill was awarded a recent residency with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace program and teaches literature and writing at City College and The New School. She lives in Brooklyn and is editor of Sona Books.</p>

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Magi, Jill

History & Criticism

Futurepoem Books

Poetry. A second collection, and first from Shearsman, by this Brooklyn-based poet, artist and small-press publisher. While TORCHWOOD documents the loss of a religion and at times, the loss of language, it gathers hope as it goes. The mostly serial works in this collection explore the possibility of faith in humanity--colleagues, classmates, strangers, lovers--attempting a language of clear-seeing and shared spirit. A poetry of inner and outer worlds, of the diary and of the subway, TORCHWOOD moves between the sentence and its trust in storytelling, and the fragment--evidence of the need to create silence in order to tell. "In Jill Magi's TORCHWOOD, various forms are employed, including a set titled 'Religious Sonnets' and the 'sudden silk' of a looser more disarranged writing in which 'whorled/ imbricate prayers/imagine edges.' She writes, 'writing grafts onto a life' and working itself out in the space provided, Magi's thread-like capillary tracings proceed from 'flipping gold-edged pages, the perfume wafts up' toward the enveloping horizon of 'what has eclipsed us'. With echoes of Stein and Scalapino, these poems have an integrity and intensity and seem scraped and tinted from a private repository of tonal 'responses to migration'."--Kimberly Lyons.

Torchwood

Poetry

Shearsman Books

<p>Poetry. An experiential investigation of how we move through cultural landmarks and institutions, SLOT presents a lyrical and thinking response to official, landscaped memory. In the book, a person slips in and out of highly designed museums and memorials, looks for a mentor who is more than a tour guide, rebels during the official tour, and occasionally finds the lament she is looking for: in comparisons across history, in ambiguous photo sequences, and in poetry. The resulting text stages a quiet argument between the persistent urge to "slot" things—into narratives, frames, archives—and a clear view of what, by resisting, remains. "SLOT pulls us through a beautiful yet harrowing poetic journey through the sediment of memory that has come to be called 9/11. By confronting the shock and desperation of violence on that achingly gorgeous autumn day, Jill Magi finds the words and images to allow us to re-member fragments of emotion and national identity that the act of memorializing has made us forget"—Robin Kelley.</p>

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Ugly Duckling Presse

Jill Magi’s new book―comprised of fiction, poetry, and archival research―LABOR explores relations between workplace and workers, race-class-gender, the institution and the body, the “personal” budget and the economy, the archive and undisciplined paper trails. An “employee handbook” sequence runs throughout the text, providing a set of directions for ritual practices toward individual agency and workplace/worker transformation. But unlike the archived ideologies and hopes of traditional labor history that LABOR’s characters eventually abandon or never fully embraced, the transformation does not look like traditional progress or reform.

LABOR

United States

Nightboat Books

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LABOR