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Jasmine Gibson is a Philly jawn, poet and social worker. Her work has been featured or reviewed in The New Yorker, PoetryNow, Entropy, Hyperallergic, Datableed Zine, LIES: Journal of Materialist Feminism, Poetry Project, The Adroit Journal and more. She is the author of the chapbooks Drapetomania (2015), Only Shallow (2020), BC (2020), the full length collection Don't Let Them See Me Like This (2018), and the forthcoming collection A Beauty Has Come from Nightboat. She is a student at The Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, training to become a Psychoanalyst.
A Beauty Has Come swallows up popular music, theory, psychoanalysis, image upon image, to open, like a mouth, poetry’s page. These poems target who defines and configures power, its liberation, redistribution, asking ‘who’s violence protected and birthed you?’ A Beauty Has Come enacts a poetry past poetics, for some thing—if it be a thing—another turn of absolution at the end of the world—to arrive. —Jos Charles A Beauty Has Come altered my imagination around what is possible in the poem—not just in terms of shape or aesthetic style, but with regards to sound. The instrumentation of the poem, a commitment to musicality that does not ask the narrative of a poem to suffer. This book rewired my brain in the best way. —Hanif Abdurraqib A Beauty Has Come is a visionary book of life, born of ‘the courage of being a Black woman in love.’ It teems with mothers, past and future; the planets whirl through the poems; it loops through the numberless deaths out of which the poet’s life has been made, and emerges singing a kind of cante jondo of spilled blood and clear, starry nights. —Chris Nealon
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