A Very Large Array: Selected Poems

Osman's writing reinvents poetry as an instrument for dissecting vision, language and power

This extensive collection of poet Jena Osman's acclaimed work spans more than 30 years, gathering poems from journals and books long out of print. Her poetry traces overlooked visual and linguistic incidents across centuries of American history, transforming "official" language--from Supreme Court opinions to the chatter of Predator drone pilots--into writing that is comic, chilling and relentlessly i...