{"product_id":"punctum","title":"Punctum","description":"“In \u003cem\u003ePunctum\u003c\/em\u003e:, Lesley Jenike’s new collection, she writes, ‘It’s our language: what can we call a thing \/ that is and is not.’ These poems are haunted by a ‘non-child,’ a child who was not to be born, and with it, a life the speaker was not to live. Absence itself becomes a nearly tangible presence. I don’t know how Jenike does it—breaks your heart and makes you want more—but I can’t remember the last time I read poems as smart and sure and devastatingly precise in their language, imagery, and feeling. In a poem about a fateful ultrasound, one that reveals no fetal heartbeat, she writes, ‘the doctor calls it “practice,” snapping off \/\/ the screen, tearing up the spit-out photograph. \/ “Next time,” she says, “it’ll be the real thing.”’ Mark my words: these poems are—and this poet is—the real thing. \u003cem\u003ePunctum\u003c\/em\u003e: is a remarkable accomplishment.”","brand":"Kent State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55331909402968,"sku":"9781606353332","price":8.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781606353332_4df61c1e-809d-40fa-b94b-98d1628a3e4b.jpg?v=1778672758","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/punctum","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}