reviews of jenny boully's [one love affair]*

Winner of two awards from Coldfront: Best Book-Length Poem and Best First Lines. Nominated for three other awards from Coldfront: Best New Book of the Year, Best Second Book, and Best Technical Innovation.

"A genre-bending back-pocket book. . . . Gritty and intellectual . . . addictive and soothing . . . fitting for just about anyone’s bookshelf. . . . You’re reading the book for second, third, and fourth time."
--Full review in Coldfront, written by John Deming.

"Boully’s fluid, lyrical writing makes what could be a difficult, intimidating read instead a delightful one. . . . Playful engagement with narrative levels of reality (poems within poems, stories within stories). I highly recommend it, especially if you’re looking for a way into the “trans-genre” of prose poetry."
-- Full review in Open Letters Monthly, written by Elisa Gabbert.

"Her fresh style challenges the ways in which we construct narratives and read texts . . . and ultimately leaves us wanting more, more, always more Boully."
--Full review in Matrix, written by Catherine Paquette.

"Boully has not only written the speaker’s one love affair, she has written our collective love affair. "
--Full review in CutBank Poetry, written by Michael Rerick.

"Boully’s language is accretive and lyrical. It is clear, feels clean in the mouth and sweet in the ear. . . . One begins to feel there another form embedded within the prose, though not a poetic form as much as the formed outline of a lover’s body, a book one has loved, one lover in a line of lovers, lying in the same bed as the former others."
--Full review in Galatea Resurrects, written by Teresa Carmody.

ALSO:

• Painstakingly analyzed In Kristi Maxwell's blog, oar
  - part 1
  - part 2

• Noted in Artvoice, written by Peter Conners

• Noted in Simon DeDeo's blog, Rhubarb Is Susan

interviews:

• in Coldfront, interviewed by John Deming
• at the Sarabande website