My Not-My Soldier (Fence Modern Poets Series)

Winner of the 2014 Fence Modern Poets Series.Jennifer Mackenzie's debut is an unfettered travelogue of embodied intellect and flights of gorgeous observance.Go hang yourselfin the light undestroyedtourist in the tremor ofa dirty window this is the famousborder we're coming up on hidden fromourselves like the hunter whose suddenantlers implied the death of selfin love No you shut up ) ([That all good poetry is the poetry of exile]is bullshit, I belong to my body & trydesperately & stubbornly to unknow itThe Individual distilled intoOutspoken by Fergie