Pelvis with Distance

AUTHOR

Jessica Jacobs

Winner, 2015 New Mexico Book Award, PoetryCurrent Finalist, Lambda Literary Award, Lesbian Poetry Longlist Finalist, Julie Suk AwardOver the Rainbow selection, American Library Association
A biography-in-poems of Georgia O'Keeffe, interwoven with the poet's lyric accounts of a solitary month in a primitive desert cabin. A narrative-drivencollection that reads like a novel, this book delves into issues of creativity,feminism, and relationships, while exploring turn-of-thelast century New York City and the New Mexico highdesert of the 1930s and today.

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"Georgia O'Keeffe's remarkable life and work inspired this poetic meditation on everything from the pleasures and pains of love to the transformations that time works on an individual. And just as the artist distilled the essence of her subject matter, abstracting from flowers and bones, landscapes and clouds, a vivid story of her walk in the sun, so Jessica Jacobs discovers a vibrant music rooted in portraiture. 'How little it takes/ to make home unfamiliar,' she writes. And home in this stunning book turns out to be the entire universe. Make yourself comfortable. There is so much to taste and see."

—Christopher Merrill, Necessities and From the Faraway Nearby: Georgia O'Keeffe as Icon

Jessica Jacobs is the author of unalone, poems in conversation with the Book of Genesis (Four Way Books, March 2024); Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going (Four Way Books, 2019), one of Library Journal’s Best Poetry Books of the Year, winner of the Devil’s Kitchen and Goldie Awards, and a finalist for the Brockman-Campbell, American Fiction, and Julie Suk Book Awards; and Pelvis with Distance (White Pine Press, 2015), a biography-in-poems of Georgia O’Keeffe, winner of the New Mexico Book Award in Poetry and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award; and the co-author of Write It! 100 Poetry Prompts to Inspire (Spruce Books/Penguin Random House). She received her BA at Smith College and her MFA in Poetry at Purdue University. She is the founder and executive director of Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry.