The History Worker - Jenny Drai

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Résumé :
Anyone with a history should read Jenny Drai's The History Worker. This book takes you from the lapidary Hearst Castle extravagance of California's Central Coast through America to the wilds of Romania and other European outposts. Several journeys, a commentary and much history occur in a broken yet flowing text of details, discoveries and imprecations. We are caught up in Drai's expeditions and implicated by her discoveries. The History Worker is a sweet and voyeuristic pickle/marathon of wick-light in the best, most dazzling sense. -- Laura Moriarty
I love this book. I love how it revisits the history we are drawn to as children-- your life collects in what heart you choose -- how we turn & return to that history as adults to read a new text through it like a palimpsest made by our own reading & writing lives. -- Pattie McCarthy...

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Jenny Drai is the author of three collections of poetry: THE HISTORY WORKER (Black Lawrence Press, 2017), WINE DARK (Black Lawrence Press, 2016), and THE DOOR (Trembling Pillow Press, 2015). Two poetry chapbooks have also been published. They are THE NEW SORROW IS LESS THAN THE OLD SORROW (Black Lawrence Press, 2015)) and : Body Wolf: (Horse Less Press). A novella, Letters to Quince, was awarded the Deerbird Novella Prize and published by Artistically Declined Press. Her work has appeared in numerous print and online journals, including American Letters and Commentary, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, New American Writing, and The Volta, among others. In addition, she was recently awarded the 2017 Gail B. Crump Prize in Experimental Fiction from Pleiades Magazine. She studied literature and foreign languages at Beloit College and received an MFA in Creative Writing from Saint Mary's College of California. She blogs about her current project (a novel about Beowulf, bees, and queens), neurodivergence, and transatlantic life, and posts photos from her travels at jennydrai.com. She lives in Bonn, Germany....