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TERRITORY: A LITERARY PROJECT ABOUT MAPS
REVIEW
DENVER QUARTERLY / VOLUME 53, 2019
Poetry society of America, Featured Poet
Beloit Poetry Journal
Fall 2020
Features “ENTRY FOR WE WILL, WE WILL”
No Tokens. April 2018.
Aster(ix) Journal
I love how in Jesiolowski’s work the individual can also be the relational, can also be the environment. In this book, which folds into its loneliness and lyrical language affectingly candid statements of gender negotiation (“the stubborn, unwieldy boy inside of me”; “I don’t want a gender or work that can pass / as work”; “I’ve started the testosterone injections”), the phrase “I move into another body / that does not erase my own” might be about gender transition, but might equally be about the intimate exchange of sex. And yet the desire for blurred bodies extends outward into non-human entities: the receding fire here becomes the stars. In “The Distance,” “the sound of crescent grass sweeping past my body” is as intimate as not having left the house in eleven days. - S. Brook Corfman
VOLT 22
Released March 2017. Milkweed Issue III focuses on privacy & visibility.