"A truly moving book." —John Ashbery
Jana Prikryl’s
The After Party
journeys across borders and eras, from cold war Central Europe to present-day New York City,
from ancient Rome to New World suburbs, constantly testing the lingua francas we negotiate to know ourselves. These poems disclose the tensions in our inherited identities and showcase Prikryl’s ambitious
experimentation with style.
“Thirty Thousand Islands,” the second half of the collection,
presents some forty linked poems that incorporate numerous voices. Rooted in one place that fragments into many places—the remote shores of Lake Huron in
Canada, a region with no natural resources aside from its beauty—these poems are an elegy that speaks beyond grief.
Penetrating, vital, and visionary,
marks the arrival of an extraordinary new talent.