A Valentine To Frank O'Hara

Literature & Fiction

Olin, Jeni

Poetry

Smokeproof Press

Poetry. "You can't teach God anything," Jeni Olin writes. An ambulance cools its jets in the arboretum, and she asks, "What have you got roughly in your breast?" The improvised reality series THE PILL BOOK disseminates a plethora of diagnoses and a handful of cures. Jeni's is lyrical asymmetry that wears its coronary on a "sushi-pink" sleeve, sitting shiva under love balloons, "helium-filled strays / traipsing around the sky clinic..." Nineteen poems call out to our punk hearts, Sofia Coppola, Ginzu knives, and blemish make-up. "All Things Considered" reads -- "People CAN change/ If they are just willing/ To drive to a pharmacy"

The Pill Book

Faux Press

Poetry. This book is Jeni Olin's first full collection of poems. It includes original full-color drawings by Larry Rivers. "The rapidly disappearing New York landscape gleams afresh in Jeni Olin's wonderfully caustic and vulnerable lyrics. As she reflects on how 'the Manhattan dusk shots that accompany the "Welcome Back Kotter" theme song leave sadder than the death of a friend,' the city comes in focus, paradoxically, 'like Kleenex on a sidewalk in the rain.' Olin's voice is both raw and strangely accommodating. This is a marvelous debut."-John Ashbery

Blue Collar Holiday

Hanging Loose Press

Blue Collar Holiday: &, a Valentine to Frank O'Hara

Poetry. HOLD TIGHT is Jeni Olin's second full collection of poems, following her exciting debut, BLUE COLLAR HOLIDAY. Writing about that book, John Ashbery praised her "wonderfully caustic and vulnerable lyrics," adding that "Olin's voice is both raw and strangely accommodating. This is a marvelous debut."

Hold Tight: The Truck Darling Poems

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