Jen Karetnick

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Domiciliary
by Jen Karetnick

ISBN: 978-1-962405-98-0
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

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ABOUT THE BOOK:

What happens when you set yourself a constraint-based writing challenge? Sometimes, a book like Domiciliary comes out of it. During the pandemic, Miami-based, New Jersey-native poet Jen Karetnick tasked herself to write 26 beautiful outlaws and 26 abecedarians, one of each titled for every letter in the alphabet. The result is poems that run riot over traditions and expectations, with many meshing multiple forms together in a strata of craft—but all of them exploring some aspect of what it means to be “home,” where this poet often finds herself.

ADVANCE PRAISE:

In Domiciliary, the brilliant Jen Karetnick demonstrates, once again, her mastery of form (including a bounty of abecedarians inspired by voices as diverse as Madonna and Sylvia Plath, and an outlaw ghazal, triolet, tritina, villanelle, rimas dissolutas, and rondeau), in the most exciting and unexpected ways. Domiciliary is a hard-earned and hard-learned lesson in hunger, in desire, in what makes a home a ‘home,’ in what happens when we abuse our planet, and what happens when we fracture time. Jen writes, “Across the way, fruit trees bloom twice as if to make up for lost time.” This is a book for the poets and the people. This is a book written in the voice of a wise friend. This is a book you’ll return to again and again—not just for the counsel, but for the beauty, the wit and the fun.

—Nicole Tallman, Poet Laureate of Miami