My Queer Shoulder and the Veil

by | Jan 21, 2015 | Faculty News, News Flash

veiled-spill-coverArielle Greenberg includes a meaty, enthusiastic discussion of Jan Clausen’s Veiled Spill: A Sequence in her latest  American Poetry Review column under the heading “What to Read Now: Some Vital Books from 2014.” Greenberg’s nuanced appreciation for work that refuses to separate artistry from history is infectious, and lamentably rare in our literary press. Read the full text here (also with compelling perspectives on work by Claudia Rankine, Emily Abendroth, CA Conrad, Hoa Nguyen, and others):

https://www.aprweb.org/article/what-read-now-some-vital-books-2014

Writing at length in The Rumpus, Kelly Morse seems a little nervous about what she labels “political poetry,” but places Veiled Spill in the best of company when she concludes with a Ginsberg reference:”Clausen is putting her queer shoulder to the wheel, America. She is hoping you will join her.”

http://therumpus.net/2015/01/veiled-spill-a-sequence-by-jan-clausen/

You’ll get that chance on the evening of Friday, Jan. 30th, when Clausen will read from the book at Word Bookstore in Greenpoint. The event, sponsored by Brooklyn for Peace, includes music by John O’Connor. Details here:

http://patch.com/new-york/bed-stuy/evening-jan-clausen-and-john-oconnor-word-bookstore-0

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Jan Clausen

Jan Clausen is the author of a dozen books in a range of genres, including the hybrid text Veiled Spill: A Sequence (GenPop Books, 2014). Her 1999 Memoir Apples and Oranges: My Journey through Sexual Identity will be reissued by Seven Stories Press in 2017. Recent poetry titles include From a Glass House and If You Like Difficulty. Prose titles include the story collection Mother, Sister, Daughter, Lover; and the novels Sinking, Stealing and The Prosperine Papers. Jan Clausen is the author of a dozen books in a range of genres, including Veiled Spill: A Sequence, from GenPop Books (2014). Other recent poetry collections are From a Glass House and If You Like Difficulty. Prose titles include the story collection Mother, Sister, Daughter, Lover; the novels Sinking, Stealing and The Prosperine Papers; and the memoir Apples and Oranges: My Journey Through Sexual Identity. Clausen’s poetry and creative prose are widely published in journals and anthologies; her book reviews and literary journalism have appeared in Boston Review, Ms., The Nation, Poets & Writers, and The Women’s Review of Books. She is the recipient of writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He website is ablationsite.org.

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