Crushing It

by Jennifer L. Knox

The poems in Jennifer Knox's darkly imaginative collection, Crushing It, unearth epiphanies in an unbounded landscape of forms, voices and subjects--from history to true crime to epidemiology--while exploring our tenuous connections and disconnections. From Merle Haggard lifting his head from a pile of cocaine to absurdist romps through an apocalypse where mushrooms learn to sing, this versatile collection is brimming with dark humor and bright surprise. Alongside Knox's distinctive surrealism, Crushing It also reveals autobiography in poems about love, family, and adult ADHD, and Knox's empathetic depictions of the ego's need to assert its precious, singular "I" suggest that a self distinct from the hive, the herd, the flock, is an illusion. At once full of clear-eyed spirit and gleeful messiness, Crushing It swallows all the world, and then some.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556595867
• ISBN13: 9781556595868
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"