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 Jesse Glass grew up on a horse farm near Westminster, Maryland. He currently lives and works in Tokyo, Japan. His plays, poems, performance works, and fiction have appeared in a wide variety of journals and anthologies
In addition to his work as Publisher of Ahadada Books, Jesse Glass is a professor of Literature and History in the Graduate and Undergraduate programs at Meikai (Bright Sea) University in Chiba, Japan. Look for Glass' work on UbuWeb, in the film 'Faites vos Jeux' by Filgruppe Chaos, in 'Visiting Walt' from the University of Iowa Press, and in scads of literary magazines and websites devoted to the "sweet science."
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- The Book of Doll (Ahadada Books, 1999)
- Make Death Die (Ahadada, 1999)
- Against the Agony of Matter (Ahadada, 1999)
- The Passion of Phineas Gage & Selected Poems (West House/Ahadada 2006)
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What Others Say
“For some years now Jesse Glass has reached us from far distances & has established himself as a poet working over a wide range of experimental forms & processes. In ‘The Passion of Phineas Gage’, Glass has outdone himself & produced a major work of documentary poetry with the variety of formats that his earlier experiments had led us to expect. It is also a work that probes deeply & unfalteringly into the fragile nature of mind & the limits & extremes to which it can be driven by external or invasive forces. In Phineas Gage’s accidental transformation, we can read our own vulnerability as temporal & soft machines.”
—Jerome Rothenberg
“You are having such wonderful enjoyment in music and in the intricate structures of the natural world that the enjoyment spills over to me as a reader. I love your poems, their music, their watchful discoveries.”
—William Bronk
"There’s . . . first and foremost a clear love for words so that you want to read out loud his poems and feel his words flesh out against the internal skin of your mouth. [Glass'] are the poems of a matured poet—he’s read a lot while writing a lot. From wide exploration, he’s chosen his own influences. For poems good to read, hear, then speak.
–Eileen Tabios, Jacket Magazine (click here for the full review)
"His rhythms are vigorous, his imagery is strong and inventive; and his language has, in places, a burly force that reminds me of Geoffrey Hill."
—The American Book Review
"Yes indeed I love [Alchemical Lion], all of it, but especially the last three lines which are pure magic. It is a wonderful celebration of the great lions & the sun."
—Helen Adam, author of Turn Again to Me, Ballads and San Francisco’s Burning.
"Jesse Glass has written a haunting and haunted long poem. Slowly, the line between voyeurs and the freak show vanishes. This is stunning work full of voices competing with each other for the reader’s soul."
—Rane Arroyo
"Jesse Glass employs a breath-taking range of voices and styles to explore the complexity beneath the sensational fact of the survival of Phineas Gage. This ambitious, wide-ranging poem tells the story of a man who had an iron bar shot through his skull in a work accident in 1848.
He channels Gage, using varied syntax and punctuation to create a distinct, empathetic voice. We all haven’t had a steel rod driven through our skulls, but we’ve experienced dramatic upheavals that change and mark us forever.
We all have Phineas Gage inside us, Glass reminds us in this impressive, powerful poem."
—Jim Daniels
"The poems are beautiful, lyrical & wise, and each has what I'm coming to see as the Jesse Glass touch!"
—Robert Lax
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