Jennifer Firestone Publishes New Book of Poetry Titled “Story”

Eugene Lang’s very own Jennifer Firestone, Associate Professor and author, has released a book of poetry titled Story.

Story is a brilliant antidote to closure and the tyranny of narrative.” 

-Brenda Coultas

There is a Story at a beach. There is a couple evolving and devolving inside a new fangled form of the couplet. There is the landscape: the ocean, sand, and sun that language flails in trying to recreate. “The beach reached for them but slipped. / The beach shells and sound. / The beach the one syllable until soft.” Story is a cryptic film, an old photograph, a mystery, where narrative, memory, truth, and trauma are interrogated, where creditability slips much like the language that is storytelling. Where, “what is the truth but what we say.”

To find out more and buy the book, visit: https://uglyducklingpresse.org/publications/story/

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Eugene Lang’s very own Jennifer Firestone, Associate Professor and author, has released a book of poetry titled Story.

Story is a brilliant antidote to closure and the tyranny of narrative.” 

-Brenda Coultas

There is a Story at a beach. There is a couple evolving and devolving inside a new fangled form of the couplet. There is the landscape: the ocean, sand, and sun that language flails in trying to recreate. “The beach reached for them but slipped. / The beach shells and sound. / The beach the one syllable until soft.” Story is a cryptic film, an old photograph, a mystery, where narrative, memory, truth, and trauma are interrogated, where creditability slips much like the language that is storytelling. Where, “what is the truth but what we say.”

To find out more and buy the book, visit: https://uglyducklingpresse.org/publications/story/