Jalousie
by Allyson Paty
$19.95
WINNER OF THE BERKSHIRE PRIZE FOR POETRY
“The title of this stunning collection refers to a window treatment which has rows of angled slats, like blinds or shutters, and Allyson Paty’s disarming lyric exemplifies a deliciously sharp perspective which at times ranges from being seen literally through partially-opened slats, the world at a slant, to confronting the mediations of how we tender our communications, representations of self, labor, and love. These are poems reminiscent of the cutting lines of Elaine Kahn and Elisa Gabbert, but these poems are uniquely their own.”
—from the Judge’s Citation by Diana Khoi Nguyen
Format: paperback
Published: April 2025
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“To read these poems is to feel transfigured in the splinters of a strobe light: Phone scrolling, the dishes, street protest, work functions — ‘skin L E A K S / the world comes I N’ — we find ourselves in a strange choreography, one it turns out we’ve been performing all along. Science tells us the present lasts but three seconds. ‘That means that every three seconds, we produce ourselves again as strangers’ (Jenny Erpenbeck). Paty is the poet of this ongoingness as acute disequilibrium.”
—Lisa Hsiao Chen, author of Activities of Daily Living
“In her new book of poems, Jalousie, Allyson Paty athletically crashes the present moment back through the diagonals of history. Through luminous perceptual collaging, the sounds in her dreams, her dailiness, and the wrath of the gods combine in a poetic logic that is both irrefutable and moving.”
—Annie-B Parson, Big Dance Theater
Allyson Paty is a poet, essayist, and teacher living in New York City. Paty is the author of the chapbooks Five O’Clock on the Shore, Score Poems, and The Further Away. She is co-founding editor of Singing Saw Press, works at NYU Gallatin, and photographs her garbage @trash_days on Instagram.
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| Weight | 0.41 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 6 × 9 in |
