Edge Effects by Jan Conn - Unquantifiable (Brick Books) - Brick Books Poetry Map (sitios de interés)
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District 6 is a residential sector of Capetown in South Africa with an infamous aparthied-era history.
"To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others" Nelson Mandela, June 1999
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.
Jan Conn reads Unquantifiable from Edge Effects on Audioboo