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Jesse Lee Kercheval writes with wit, vivid language, and devastating honesty in these autobiographical poems. Tracing the timelines of her life forward and backward, she offers a moving examination of the role of family and the possible/probable/hoped for existence of God -- and how our perceptions of the divine can be transformed from a kindergartner's dyslexically scrawled "doG loves U" to the ever-present but oft-ignored Dog Angel of the title.
About the author
Jesse Lee Kercheval is a poet, writer, and translator, specializing in Uruguayan poetry. She is the author of
America that island off the coast of France and
Dog Angel and the translator of
Love Poems by Idea Vilariño and
The Invisible Bridge: Selected Poems of Circe Maia. A bilingual Spanish-English edition of her selected poems,
La crisis es el cuerpo, translated by Ezequiel Zaidenwerg, was published in Argentina and is forthcoming in Mexico. She is also the author of the Alex Award-winning memoir
Space and the short story collection
Underground Women.
Summary
Full of wit, vivid language, and devastating honesty, these poems trace the timelines of Kercheval's life forward and backward, offering a moving examination of the connections that bind us together into families and communities.
