The Right Place to Jump

by Peter Covino

Overview

Poetry. LGBT Studies. "If Frank O'Hara had lived to chronicle the post 9/11 decade, he might have written these wonderfully funny, sad, heartbreaking, jaunty, and always delightfully accurate poems by Peter Covino. THE RIGHT PLACE TO JUMP is unique in its immediacy, the tonal range of its love poems and elegies, its ability to draw the reader into the bittersweet daily round of the 'missed-numbed decade.' Who else would have begun a poem ('Broken Kingdom') with the advice, 'Always check expiration dates'? Here is a poet who so readily laughs at himself that we cannot help sharing in the fun—and the pain."—Marjorie Perloff

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781936970094
Publisher:	New Issues Poetry and Prose
Publication date:	10/01/2012
Pages:	74
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.70(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Poet, translator, and editor PETER COVINO is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Rhode Island. He is the winner of the 2007 PEN American/Osterweil Award for emerging poets and also the author of Cut Off the Ears of Winter (New Issues, 2005) and the chapbook Straight Boyfriend (2001), winner of the Frank O’Hara Poetry Prize. His co-edited volume, Essays on Italian American Literature and Culture recently appeared from Bordighera Press, CUNY (2012).

What People are Saying About This

Marjorie Perloff

If Frank O'Hara had lived to chronicle the post 9/11 decade, he might have written these wonderfully funny, sad, heartbreaking, jaunty, and always delightfully accurate poems by Peter Covino. The Right Place to Jump is unique in its immediacy, the tonal range of its love poems and elegies, its ability to draw the reader into the bitter-sweet daily round of the “missed-numbed decade.” Who else would have begun a poem (“Broken Kingdom”) with the advice, “Always check expiration dates”? Here is a poet who so readily laughs at himself that we cannot help sharing in the fun—and the pain. —Marjorie Perloff

Editorial Reviews

It’s an encouraging thing that one of the country’s finest small presses, New Issues, has published Peter Covino’s second book of poems, The Right Place to Jump. The collection, which will be in stores on October 1st, is a boundaryless performance by Covino, influenced as much by conventional and popular poetics as it is by experimentation. There are poems that seem to place him, to my mind, in the upper stratosphere of our small poetry world and others that outpace me (usually because of their experimentation); but for all its variety and chaos of style, what’s special about The Right Place to Jump is that it feels whole, exactly the book it needs to be.”—Bobby Elliott, Huffington Post

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