The After Party: Poems

The After Party: Poems

"A truly moving book." —John Ashbery<br><br>Jana Prikryl’s <i>The After Party</i> journeys across borders and eras, from cold war Central Europe to present-day New York City,<b> </b>from ancient Rome to New World suburbs, constantly testing the lingua francas we negotiate to know ourselves. These poems disclose the tensions in our inherited identities and showcase Prikryl’s ambitious<b> </b>experimentation with style.<br><br>“Thirty Thousand Islands,” the second half of the collection,<b> </b>presents some forty linked poems that incorporate numerous voices. Rooted in one place that fragments into many places—the remote shores of Lake Huron in<b> </b>Canada, a region with no natural resources aside from its beauty—these poems are an elegy that speaks beyond grief.<br><br>Penetrating, vital, and visionary, <i>The After Party</i> marks the arrival of an extraordinary new talent.