{"id":2015,"date":"2015-09-01T19:59:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T19:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/product\/import-placeholder-for-166\/"},"modified":"2023-05-23T12:22:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T16:22:35","slug":"the-veronica-maneuver","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/product\/the-veronica-maneuver\/","title":{"rendered":"The Veronica Maneuver"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jennifer Moore’s debut collection takes its title from a bullfighting technique in which the matador draws the bull with his cape; in these poems, however, traditional moves are reconfigured and roles are subverted. In a broader sense, the word “veronica” (from the Latin vera, or “true” and the Greek eikon, or “image”) functions as a frame for exploring the nature of visual experience, and underscores a central question: how do we articulate events or emotions that evade clear understanding? In order to do so, the figures here perform all manner of transformations: from vaudeville star to cartoonist’s daughter, from patron saint to “Blue-Eyed Torera;” they are soothsayers, apothecaries, curators, often conjuring selves out of thin air. This dilating and “shape-shifting” of perspective becomes a function of identity: “the absorber and the absorbed become one.” Indeed, both speaker and listener must be crafted-willed into being-by each other (“Be your own maestro”), and are apparitions until then. Through a flick of the wrist or a trick of the eye, these speakers understand that construction of a self comes only through performance of that self\u2014which performances are often punctuated with a wink, an unswerving gaze, or both at once.<\/p>\n

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In\u00a0The Veronica Maneuver<\/em>, each poem is a flammable mouth that refuses to be muzzled. Dazzling and dislocating the reader with ventriloquism, vaudevillian gowns, and sword swallowing, the book\u2019s arresting tone is established by its torero title and first line\u2014\u201cIn the Year of Our Lord the Electric Chair.\u201d The sizzle, hazard (and humor) of Moore\u2019s work dilates as she dismantles the commonplace with deft conjuring. Negotiating a space for women\u2019s voices that is electric and multivalent, her poetry pivots on \u201cmaking maneuvers\u00a0look effortless,\u201d and she is a masterful matador, unfurling the vibrant cloth of her poems to challenge and rouse us. These are \u201cblood-dance\u201d evocations deserving to be heard.
\n\u2014Simone Muench<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jennifer Moore cuts right to the marrow and in so doing finds the marrow\u2019s song. \u201cDoesn\u2019t each history,\u201d she asks, \u201ccontain another body?\u201d Perhaps this is her way of showing that our\u00a0humanity is revealed in our woundedness. Yet in Moore\u2019s lushly musical poems, it also means something stranger,\u00a0mysterious\u2014yes, something magical. The harmonies that fulfill these poems know grief as well as wit, intelligence, and empathy. This poet incises language with passion, not dispassion, until breath and pulse coalesce. In this fine book, \u201cthe absorber and the absorbed become one.\u201d
\n\u2014Elizabeth Robinson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reviews & Interviews<\/h3>\n

American Microreviews & Interviews- http:\/\/www.americanmicroreviews.com\/the-veronica-maneuver-by-jennifer-moore<\/a><\/p>\n

The Critical Flame- http:\/\/criticalflame.org\/the-tiniest-ark-jennifer-moores-the-veronica-maneuver\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Michael Wells- https:\/\/michaelwells.ink\/veronica-maneuver.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Rob Mclennan’s Blog- http:\/\/robmclennan.blogspot.com\/2016\/09\/jennifer-moore-veronica-maneuver.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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About the author<\/h3>\n

Jennifer Moore<\/h3>\n

Jennifer Moore is the author of the chapbook What the Spigot Said<\/em>\u00a0(High5 Press). Poems have appeared in\u00a0<\/span>American Letters & Commentary, Best New Poets, B\u2009O\u2009D\u2009Y, Columbia Poetry Review,<\/em>\u00a0and elsewhere. A native of the Seattle area, Jennifer is an assistant professor of poetry at Ohio Northern University, where she teaches courses in creative writing, literature, and composition. Currently, she lives in Bowling Green, Ohio.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Jennifer Moore<\/h3>\n

Pages: 62; Size: 6 x 9
\nSeries: Akron Series in Poetry<\/p>\n

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