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Book Cov­er of the Week: You Exist

Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
July 17, 2012

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter

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You Exist. Details Fol­low. is Stu­art Ross’s sev­enth full-length col­lec­tion of poet­ry. In these poems, Ross veers in oppo­site direc­tions: nar­ra­tive con­fes­sion­al poems, and works that might be con­sid­ered abstract expres­sion­ist, and a lot both in between and beyond those bound­aries. Each poem breathes with the sig­na­ture weird­ness, the sharp wit, and gen­tle awe that Ross is known for. Here you’ll find con­found­ing cen­tos, frac­tured son­nets, deliri­ous lists, poems com­posed through sur­re­al­ist strate­gies, a new addi­tion to Ross’s auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal Razovsky series, and more.

Orig­i­nal­ly from Lan­cast­er, Penn­syl­va­nia, Nao­mi is the CEO of Jew­ish Book Coun­cil. She grad­u­at­ed from Emory Uni­ver­si­ty with degrees in Eng­lish and Art His­to­ry and, in addi­tion, stud­ied at Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege Lon­don. Pri­or to her role as exec­u­tive direc­tor, Nao­mi served as the found­ing edi­tor of the JBC web­site and blog and man­ag­ing edi­tor of Jew­ish Book World. In addi­tion, she has over­seen JBC’s dig­i­tal ini­tia­tives, and also devel­oped the JBC’s Vis­it­ing Scribe series and Unpack­ing the Book: Jew­ish Writ­ers in Conversation.

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