The Fry by Jacqueline Waters
Jacqueline Waters's fourth collection confronts the ways we push each other around, hoping for a little win, settling for the slow diminishment of our souls. The book's themes include the vagaries of authority, the principle of sweeping everything under the rug then wondering why the rug's not flat, the collaboration of fear and contempt, and an ill-advised passion for healing. \\ Jacqueline Waters has always been new to me, these more than twenty years I've admired her. An adventurous, diamond mind -- her perception remains immaculate, seemingly immune to what it sees and knows. --ARIANA REINES \\ I can't exactly tell you how funny I find "Interview," how moving I find "A Ruse," how lovely and bewildering I find "What Might Good Be," or why I keep returning to the writing in this book as if to some deep, wild need. What I can tell you is that I've been preoccupied with -- or maybe "occupied by" is a better way to say it -- the poems of Jacqueline Waters for the past quarter century and that they only get better with time and attention. I do believe they'll never go away. --GRAHAM FOUST \\ To open this book is to be recruited to a dysfunctional team, for shadowy purposes, under a capricious and possibly disapproving leader. It's not that you don't trust your vaguely familiar comrades, but every time you try to communicate, a horde of readymade phrases intercede to thwart any chance of a pact, and there you are, "just two / collegial / enemies / enduring the false conspiracy / of the shared umbrella / on a wild, windy night." There's a moral education dispensed in Waters's soberly devastating, sui generis poems, and yet that makes them sound general, so that it's all the more disconcerting to realize: "This is not aimed at anyone / but you know and I know it's YOU." --MATT LONGABUCCO \\ Waters's poems ask, when do we stop performing ourselves, our desires, our fears, and when do we become them. Is the answer always or never? --LAURA HENRIKSEN
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781959708186 |
| ISBN 10 | 195970818X |
| Title | The Fry |
| Author | Jacqueline Waters |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Winter Editions |
| Year published | 2026-04-28 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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