Poetry. Jeff Conant was born in New York City and raised in provincial New England. He spent the 1990s living in Northern California and Southern Mexico working as a papermaker, printer, teacher, plumber and gardener. Smile, youre so/ wanted.MorePoetry. Jeff Conant was born in New York City and raised in provincial New England. He spent the 1990s living in Northern California and Southern Mexico working as a papermaker, printer, teacher, plumber and gardener. Smile, youre so/ wanted. Stolen// from the mouth/ of a dead man, // the teeth sing/ resonate, glow// in the dark, lifted, / long in the face.
(Zygomatacus). Jeff Conants poetry is extraordinary, dizzying the reader with unforgettable images, and behind the eloquence of language, a set of powerful statements about the world we inhabit. --Howard Zin