Botero's Beautiful Horses by Jan Conn - Absolute Love (Brick Books) - Brick Books Poetry Map (sitios de interés)

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SUNY Albany, Albany, NY

Jan Conn is a well known Canadian poet and a research scientist at the Wadsworth Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, New York State Department of Health in Albany NY, and Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the School of Public Health, SUNY-Albany. She has a Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of Toronto.

Since 2002 she has been living in western Massachusetts, conducting research on insects that transmit pathogens.

The poems of Botero's Beautiful Horses are charged with otherness, bright with the exhilaration and danger of transformation.

Many are descriptions of surrealist canvases, astonishingly kinetic narratives composed by looking hard at unusual pictures, the artists' writings and their circumstances - and letting them speak for themselves. The book becomes a journey away from the familiar into other cultures, especially Latin American.

Botero's Beautiful Horses (Brick Books, 2009) includes many lyrical poems written in Latin America, and one set on Mars. "[Jan Conn's poetry] is embedded with contrast and contradictions, is harsh and pliable, full of starlight and fire and blood, and yet she achieves equilibrium that knocks the reader off kilter: look up from the page, steady yourself, and you are changed." - Janet Grafton, from The Goose about Botero's Beautiful Horses