NEW—A Map for Exiting the Body, by Jin Cordaro
Praise for A Map for Exiting the Body
This book is so delicious it makes me hungry. In A Map for Exiting the Body, Jin Cordaro employs a deft sleight-of-hand and layers of wry metaphor to create back roads, detours, surprising vistas of wonder. I’m haunted by phrases like “one small shelter of purpose” and “the numbers of days since your hope was last seen.” Or try a title like “Acerbic You Does Not Like Laid Back You” or “When I Go Too Long Without Reading a Poem.” There's humor lifting the weight, always, with such a genuinely endearing tone.
—Naomi Shihab Nye, Tender Spot: Selected Poems
This book is so delicious it makes me hungry. In A Map for Exiting the Body, Jin Cordaro employs a deft sleight-of-hand and layers of wry metaphor to create back roads, detours, surprising vistas of wonder. I’m haunted by phrases like “one small shelter of purpose” and “the numbers of days since your hope was last seen.” Or try a title like “Acerbic You Does Not Like Laid Back You” or “When I Go Too Long Without Reading a Poem.” There's humor lifting the weight, always, with such a genuinely endearing tone.
—Naomi Shihab Nye, Tender Spot: Selected Poems
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Jin Cordaro received her MFA from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her work has been featured on the podcast The Slowdown and has appeared in The Sun, Painted Bride Quarterly, Faultline, and Bacopa Literary Review, among others. She is the recipient of the Fairleigh Dickinson Director's Award, a grant finalist from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, and the recipient of the Editor's Prize from Apple Valley Review. She currently calls central New Jersey her home, where she enjoys life with her family. website Available at: Terrapin Bookstore Amazon B&N |
