Edge Effects by Jan Conn - The Former Danceuse Contemplates an Eggplant-Tinted Galaxy (Brick Books) - Brick Books Poetry Map (sitios de interés)
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This poem was inspired by the paintings of Mexican-American artist Leslie Zeidenweber
Conn was the recipient of a travel grant from the University of Vermont (2000) and a Canada Council Senior Writing Grant (2001), both in conjunction with the Margaret Mee Project. Her book South of the Tudo Bem Cafe, Vehicule Press, 1990, was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award. A suite of her poems, Amazonia, won 2nd prize in the CBC literary awards for 2003. She was recently awarded the inaugural P.K. Page Founders' Award for Poetry (2006) from The Malahat Review.
Jan Conn is 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. She has lived in Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto, Caracas (Venezuela), Gainesville (Florida), and Burlington (Vermont).
Since 2002 she has been living in western Massachusetts, conducting research on insects that transmit pathogens.
Reading Edge Effects, Jan Conn’s masterful eighth collection, is a little::text like looking at Edward Burtynsky’s photographs of real industrial wastelands; both visions are as gorgeous as they are terrifying, platforms for thought, even for activism, depending as they do on the energy of the viewer/reader for completion.
Cover art: Photograph of East Greenbush, NY artist Suzanne Hicks' colour palette.