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A gorgeous collection of poems that are layered with political and familial messages and metaphors, spanning from the New Jersey Turnpike to Buenos Aires.

 

 In an exploration of disappearance, Jasmine Bailey uses real-life political concealment and natural decay to explain forms of departure. Going between time and spaces such as her hometown in New Jersey to the Dirty War in Argentina, Bailey effectively conveys her understandings of what it means to lose, search for, or be haunted by, a person, place, or memory.

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Jasmine Bailey, a ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû alum, holds an MFA from the University of Virginia and a PhD in creative writing from Texas Tech University. She has been a Fulbright fellow in Argentina, an Olive B. O’Connor fellow at ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû, and a fellow at the Vermont Studio Center.

Because its examination and reflection on both political and personal memory are now more relevant than ever.

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Join us in person or on Thursday, September 25,  for Jasmine Bailey’s reading and book signing. This event will be hosted by Peter Balakian and also include poets Vivek Narayanan and Matthew Cooperman. This event will take place at 4:30 ET in Persson Auditorium. Refreshments will be available.

You had never lost anyone and wanted to see grief, so went to Plaza de Mayo where mothers marched twenty-five years around the fountain, between stalls selling flags and the cathedral, …They shared their abundance with us like bread beneath the palace where Evita lifted her hands,and Juan Peron’s body swallowed her collapse.

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