Jennifer Harris

This is How I Dream It Jennifer Harris

The JackLeg Press Poetry Series. Jennifer Harris' This is How I Dream It is a poem of longing so innocent it walks into the heart before you have a chance to batten down, preserve old separations, and protect yourself from what the poet elicits best: humanness. These are lyric offerings that verge on the ecstatic, love poems set in a multidimensional universe where all things are creatable even while gravity holds us here. I'm reminded of Pablo Neruda's Book of Questions and Kimiko Hahn's zuihitsus for their raw power, simplicity, and breadth. There is an almost disturbing dearth of cynicism, an unyielding belief in the unmanifested, and the open spaces of silence that surround the songs. Read this book for quiet, for light, and for its lovely and dangerous potential to enter the heart. -- Maureen Seaton