Jen Karetnick

This is a quirky little book of poetry. Not only does it play with very difficult-to-pull-off rhyme schemes (I think I saw a ghazal, a sonnet, a sestina, and a villanelle, but don't quote me on that), each poem utilizes at least one "found" poetic verse. The result is that the Miami Karetnick depicts--one whose shores are buried by the wash of tidal floods (a result of global warming)--is construed through the happenstance of the detritus that bobs along the surface, both meaningnessly and meaningfully.… (more)