Jill Pearlman’s chapbook, Diaspora of Things, has just been published by Finishing Line Press. It is a Proustian tale, at once ordinary and nightmarish. In the dismantling of a family home, the speaker finds that dispossession has liberated things: they acquire a life of their own. It stirs up anarchic, chaotic energy. Nothing is excluded from the rites of possession and dispossession, including the poet’s identity. Just as she assesses, she is re-assessed; as she feels, she is felt. In the paradox of chaos, she finds multiple voices. Jill will be having a reading in Berkeley, CA, in early November (plans being solidified now). Please, please be in touch! More info here.
