Currin's last book (The Inquisition Yours) won the Audre Lore Award for lesbian poetry, and was shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award in the same categoryCurrin identifies as a LGBTQ writer and her work may be of interest to bookstores with an LGBTQ focusBook may be of interest to political/social activists, given its scope and themes of collective change.
In tongues alternately vulnerable, defiant, resigned, and hopeful, The Inquisition Yours speaks to the atrocities of our time – war, environmental destruction, terrorism, cancer, and the erosion of personal rights – fashioning a tenuous bridge between the political and the personal.
Her acclaimed debut collection, The Sleep of Four Cities, announced the arrival of a fully formed, arresting new talent, and the poems in Jen Currin’s new collection, Hagiography, see her trademark cunning wordplay and entirely contemporary take on the surrealist image moving into new and more personal territory. In a style that regularly pushes life’s barely hidden strangeness into the light, Currin’s poems present thought as a bright, emotionally complex event, a...
