My Not-My Soldier

"2014 Fence Modern Poets Series winner Jennifer Mackenzie’s debut is a travelogue of embodied intellect and flights of gorgeous observance. The identified speaker of Mackenzie’s charged, lyric utterances is a woman of style, wit, and charm. Often in love, often traveling in a foreign land, often in love in a foreign land, and always alert to sensory stimuli, receptive to signals and the demands made upon a living, moving, implicated creature to act, to think, to retreat and to relate"--Publisher.