a Year & other poems seems spare on the surface but reveals a beautiful fractal structure, line and language in self-similar scales repeating throughout the pages. Currently, she’s a doctoral candidate at UC Irvine and teaches as a part of Randolph College’s low-residency MFA program.Ĭharles follows up her linguistically innovative feeld by beckoning the reader to come in close and read her day-book on love and grief. Writer of feeld (Milkweed Editions, 2018) a Pulitzer-finalist and winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series, and Safe Space (Ahsahta Press, 2016), Charles is a nimble and deep-thinking poet who is capable of enfolding a speculative homage to A Clockwork Orange and Chaucer in the same book of poems.
For Charles it was a year marked by material insecurity, lyric recurrence, and personal change set against the backdrop of the California wildfires and the 2016 US election. In her new book, a Year & other poems, Jos Charles excavates what she calls “geological time” to explore the contours of a single year: 2016.
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