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by Janine Joseph (Author)
In the deeply personal Decade of the Brain, Janine Joseph writes of a newly-naturalized American citizen who suffers from post-concussive memory loss after a major auto accident.
The collection is an odyssey of what it means to recover--physically and mentally--in the aftermath of trauma and traumatic brain injury, charting when "before" crosses into "after." Through connected poems, buckling and expansive syntax, ekphrasis, and conjoined poetic forms, Decade of the Brain remembers and misremembers hospital visits, violence and bodily injury, intimate memories, immigration status, family members, and the self.After the accident I turned out
all of the lights in the room while I watched,concussed, from the mirror. I edged like a fever
with nothing on the tip of my tongue.Author Biography
Janine Joseph is a poet and librettist born in the Philippines. She is the author of Driving Without a License, winner of the 2014 Kundiman Poetry Prize and 2018 da Vinci Eye award, finalist for the 2017 Oklahoma Book Award, and named an Honorable Mention for the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize. Her poetry, essays, and critical work have appeared in The Nation, The Georgia Review, Orion Magazine, The Atlantic, Pleiades, The Poem's Country: Place & Poetic Practice, Zócalo Public Square, VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series, and elsewhere. Her honors include fellowships, scholarships, and residencies from MacDowell, Kundiman, Vermont Studio Center, Sewanee Writers' Conference, Bethany Arts Community, and the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. A co-organizer for Undocupoets, Janine is an assistant professor of creative writing at Oklahoma State University
