The Pact by Jennifer Militello Jo Brandon grace and erudition

grace and erudition

Translated by Abigail Parry and Serafina Vick

expanding into lyrical prose pieces and closing with a reflective long poem – part elegy and part reflective essay on competitive trampolining – the poems are united by a desire to pay absolute attention to both the material and inner world

This new translation by Jeffrey Scott Bernstein

they shift across states of matter and registers of language and voice

The Pact by Jennifer Militello Jo Brandon grace and eruditionIn her newest collection, award winning poet and memoirist Jennifer Militello confronts obsession, intimacy, and abuse. Through love poems inspired by such disparate spaces as a British art museum and the reptile house of a local zoo, comparing a romantic affair to the religious cult at Jonestown and a mothers role to a Congolese power figure bristling with nails, The Pact offers an indictment against affection and a portent against zeal. This book