Emerging Poet's Latest Collection is Silence--Imbibed

Around the edges of human interpersonal encounters are the things left too unsaid: the yearning, the regret, the lust, and most devastatingly, the guilt. Silence is our central tie. We feel it in our bodies. Communicate it with our eyes. The inter- becomes intra- when it is imbibed. Absorbed. The central theme of this collection of poems is that silence is imbibed when so much could be said, but the brevity of form demands less.

"Jenn Gutiérrez's new collection of poems is one of the most important books of poetry from a new generation of poets. Read the poems closely in Silence Imbibed and you will hear a new sense of silence that becomes music imbued with the blood, grit and love of this poet's struggles. Every one of the poems in this book, indeed, every word in this book makes new meaning from her elaborate stories and incredible use of white space....This collection of incredible metaphors may change the way you understand anything-it's as if her poems give voice and microphone to so much of what is said and lost, to so much of what is unsayable simply singing in and between her lines....Her poems will please you, challenge you, and ultimately take you through the pain and joy of a life that we must know better to be better ourselves." -Will Hochman

Jenn Gutiérrez holds a M.F.A. in English and Writing from Southampton College. Previous work has appeared in journals such as The Texas Review, The Writer's Journal, The Acentos Review, Antique Children, Underground Voices, Bacopa Literary Review, Verdad Magazine, and Flycatcher Journal. Her debut collection of poems, titled Weightless, was published in 2005.

($15, ISBN: 978-1-937536-10-7, LCCN: 2011942885, PS3607.U817 S55-2011, 100pp, 6X9″)

Anaphora Literary Press is an independent publisher that has published dozens of creative and non-fiction books. Among these publications is the Pennsylvania Literary Journal, a tri-annual journal, which has published best-selling authors like Cinda Williams Chima and Carrie Ryan. The press is a member of The Independent Book Publishers Association and The Council of Editors of Learned Journals. Anaphora authors have done readings at major venues. Several titles have been assigned in college classes, and reviewed in major academic, trade and news publications. The Press's Director, Anna Faktorovich, is an English professor.

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