Citizen J by Daniela Olszewska

By Daniela Olszewska

Citizen J hides in underground forests, concerns that her toasters are miked, reveals bombs in strange areas, attempts her hand at piloting and cowboy human assets. She marries twelve husbands, marries twelve other halves. during this sequence of interconnected poems, reminiscent right now of Heather Christle and John Berryman, Olszewska's everywoman hero strikes throughout a panorama that would be the USA re-imagined as a post-Soviet kingdom: surreal, contradictory.

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