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“There is tensile, sculptural materiality to the language in Judith Pacht’s stunning collection, PRECARIOUS: NEW & SELECTED POEMS, in which lean linguistic precision, a-linear structures and neo-narrative gaps lead the reader again and again into moments of profoundly rich experiential vision. Pacht’s poems locate themselves in everyday domestic scenes, but they yearn toward sublimity, exploring how the careful attention we pay to the world can lead us, quite unexpectedly, to something more: not to traditional ‘meaning,’ but to art itself. To the shifting, renewing freedoms of our own constructive consciousness.”
— Dorothy Barresi “In PRECARIOUS, Pacht excavates consciousness and conscience— the intricacies of the self, its early imprints and consequences, the way an older version holds her younger forms. The poet inhabits the multiples. She describes the ‘scent of resin and damp earth, musk and bark in the air,’ sensations in the mind of a ten-year-old girl, sharp and tender, taking the world in. And that’s exactly what the poems in PRECARIOUS do: perceive life as it is: complicated, fragile, lavish with beauty.” — Marsha de la O “PRECARIOUS is a distillation of a lifetime in the poetry life, with finely crafted work in complex forms such as beau rime, sestinas and Spanish sonnets. There are poems that read as if they were written from ancient history and poems about the shocks and disappointments of today’s news. Welcome to the lyrical, complex world of Judith Pacht. Hang on, it is a ride worth taking.” — Richard Garcia JUDITH PACHT's Summer Hunger won the 2011 PEN Southwest Book Award for Poetry. Recent poetry books are Infirmary for a Private Soul and A Cumulus Fiction. A three-time Pushcart nominee, Pacht was first place winner in the Georgia Poetry Society’s Edgar Bowers competition. Her poem “KIN” was published recently on Verse Daily, and her work appears in numerous anthologies and journals such as Ploughshares, Runes, Nimrod and Phoebe. Her poetry has been translated into Russian and published in Foreign Literature, Moscow, Russia. Pacht reads at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, at Charleston’s Piccolo Spoleto Festival, and she has read and taught Political Poetry at Denver’s annual LitFest at the Lighthouse, at UCLA Extension, and at Beyond Baroque in Los Angeles. Visit her website at www.judithpacht.com
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An imprint of What Books Press, Los Angeles
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GIANT CLAW is a small press located in Los Angeles, California. We are an imprint of What Books Press. Both presses are run by the Glass Table Collective, a diverse group of artists and writers.
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