Ebook {Epub PDF} Among Women: Poems by Jason Shinder

In Among Women, Shinder courageously explores men s fear of sexual intimacy using a personal, very private voice that whispers from the mire of lived human experience In crisp, clean lines, the poems accurately convey the vulnerability, longing, and shame associated with the fear of human contact and communication Sometimes achingly sensual, though never sentimental, ShiIn Among Women, . In Among Women, Shinder courageously explores men's fear of sexual intimacy using a personal, very private voice that whispers from the mire of lived human experience. In crisp, clean lines, the poems accurately convey the vulnerability, longing, and shame associated with /5(9). If most of Phillips's poems seem cut from the same cloth, Jason Shinder's Among Women is an uncut bolt, a book so obsessively through-composed that it approaches the condition of a long poem or lyric sequence while retaining the basic format of a collection. Thus individual poems are not numbered, yet are often stitched together by verbal.

Born in Brooklyn, poet and editor Jason Shinder grew up there and in Merrick, New York. He earned a BA at Skidmore College. Shinder is the author of three collections of poetry: the posthumously published Stupid Hope (), Among Women (), and Every Room. A poem by Jason Shinder: Eternity. A poem written three thousand years ago. about a man who walks among horses. grazing on a hill under the small stars. comes to life on a page in a book. and the woman reading the poem. in her kitchen filled with a gold, metallic light. finds the experience of living in that moment. He is the author of Among Women (Graywolf Press, ), Every Room We Ever Slept In (), a NY Public Library Notable Book, and the chapbook Uncertain Hours. Shinder is also the editor of many anthologies, most recently: The Poem That Changed America: "Howl" Fifty Years Later () and The Poem I Turn To: Actors and Directors Present Poetry.

read poems by this poet. Jason Shinder was born in Brooklyn, NY in He was the founder and director of the YMCA National Writer's Voice, as well as the director of Sundance Institute's Writing Program. He taught in the graduate writing programs at Bennington College and the New School University. He is the author of Among Women (Graywolf Press, ), Every Room We Ever Slept In (), a NY Public Library Notable Book, and the chapbook Uncertain Hours. – Born in Brooklyn, poet and editor Jason Shinder grew up there and in Merrick, New York. He earned a BA at Skidmore College. Shinder is the author of three collections of poetry: the posthumously published Stupid Hope (), Among Women (), and Every Room We Ever Slept In (), a New York Public Library Notable Book. In a review of Among Women, poet Carol Muske-Dukes observed, “I don’t know of any male poet that approximates the honest terror and desire, the sense of. In Among Women, Shinder courageously explores men's fear of sexual intimacy using a personal, very private voice that whispers from the mire of lived human experience. In crisp, clean lines, the poems accurately convey the vulnerability, longing, and shame associated with the fear of human contact and communication.