Dear Jack

Poetry. "In this collection of short poems, some only a few words, Jill Stengel has written a large book in psychological scope and emotional depth. These brief letters express thoughts, feelings and moods that come and go, repeating themselves, while no two are the same in their contexts, like days in a person's life. Reading, I found myself feeling lighter, the weight of embodiment shifted by Jill, the writer's, capacity to engage with the endlessness of ambiguity and paradox, desire and seeking."—Patricia Dienstfrey