Sophie Jennis

Hot Young Stars: Poems Sophie Jennis

He warned me of the undercover cops. Forty year-old blond men in plainclothes. I want to keep you safe. I want to break laws when it benefits me and helps me save money. I want you to understand I have experience with a lot of sports. I want you to know I used to be a performer, and a relatively good one, because I was smart enough to understand. I like people who are shy and witty. That pulls me in and keeps me in. I don't have much history with boats. Nor skating, or even the beach. // "...unabashed, self-aware, erotic, and entirely unique. The voice that drives these poems is unearthly and insular, as if trapped in a snow globe made from candy. Perhaps Jennis is the Enya of poetry: alone in a shimmering private castle, immersed in a language of her own."-SHY WATSON, author of Cheap Yellow