Jennifer Fox Bennett

[susanstinson]

nishgyrl made a post with a poem, the same, which starts with the possibility of peeling farms off with teeth, and goes on with that kind of scraping precision from there. Check it out.

There is more very sharp and lovely work on her website.

Comments

[animikwaan.livejournal.com]

i had the image of fileting a trout or de-gutting a hunted moose when i wrote it. these things that were quite peaceful and ritualistic back-in-the-day in light of our spirituality are viewed somewhat homicidially in much of the cushy modern american/canadian society...

xo

[susanstinson.livejournal.com]

Part of what is so powerful about this poem to me is that degutting, fried fish with the family sense of, as you say, back-in-the-day routine, and how these things are inextricably attached to enormous power, from the beginning, got to have a pretty good bite peel away farms with teeth, but it does, it feels almost like a casual possibility. Except that it's happening in the context where the violence of denied business loans and shot in the back with a .22 are persistently there, deeply ugly but not inevitable, could be plucked out, excised.

Such a poem. xo