Overview

POWER POINT, the groundbreaking short collection by Jane Muschenetz, intersects humor with data science, protest art, and uplifting poetics to skewer entrenched societal norms. The book includes award nominated, genre/discipline bending poems that make the case for a more compassionate world. Winner of the 2024 California Press Women Communications Prize in Creative Verse and ""MIT trained mother of two,"" Muschenetz used Microsoft PowerPoint(TM) software to create several of the 'pointed' poems about 'power' dynamics in this collection.

Full Product Details

9781962405027

Table of Contents

Reviews

"Power Point astonishes me. In this short collection, Jane Muschenetz calls the U.S. to account for injustices against women and girls, quite literally keeping count by transforming graphs with footnotes into poetic forms. Her ability to write about such heavy topics as maternal mortality, racism, rape culture, and gun violence while still offering us humor, beauty, and hope for the future is masterful. If you ever need to prove to someone that poetry is still alive and powerful, you can hand them this chapbook. --Katie Manning, Editor-in-chief of Whale Road Review, author of Hereverent and Tasty Other It takes a certain kind of passion to write great didactic poetry. Lucretius had it, and so does Jane Muschenetz. She is a knower and her devotion to the precise, the measurable, has made the unmeasurable madness of the world all the more painful. Muschenetz also retains the deep humor and irony of her earlier work. (My favorite line may well be ""...Does anyone miss Borscht, really?"") In Power Point, there are no distinctions between the scientific, the personal, the political, and the ecstatic. Muschenetz's love for what our world is and can/should become permeates each poem. In ""Pink Noise,"" she exclaims, perfectly and triumphantly: ""Oh, Science! / How you pretend to not be poetry, yet / speak in silent prayers."" --George Franklin, Recipient of the 2023 W.B. Yeats Poetry Prize and author of Remote Cities andConversaciones sobre agua/Conversations About Water, in collaboration with Ximena G�mez We need these poems! In Power Point, Jane Muschenetz presents readers with a brand new poetic form of her own creation-""data poems."" The innovative, business-like style underscores the feminine rage seething just below the surface of these pieces. Muschenetz pulls no punches here and the very first poem is a gut punch, a necessary one. Commingling with righteous anger in this collection is hope. ""Imagine-/ none of us powerless."" Her chosen form has a decided function, a pointed powerful one. --Elizabeth MacDuffie, editor-in-chief of Meat For Tea: The Valley Review, winner Best Magazine in the Annual New England Book Show"

Author Information

MIT alum and former Bain & Co Management Consultant, Jane Yevgenia Muschenetz arrived in the US as a Jewish child refugee from Soviet Ukraine. She earned her BA in Political Science from UCSD, her MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Business, and learned (via extensive on-the-job-training) to mother two ""mostly American"" kids - never once considering how much this education would aid her in the writing of poetry. Recognized in 2023 by San Diego County for excellence in poetry performance, Jane is a 2023 City of Encinitas Exhibiting Artist and winner of The Good Life Review 2022 Poetry Prize. Her debut poetry collection, All the Bad Girls Wear Russian Accents (Kelsay, 2023), is a 5 Star Readers' Favorite book and finalist for the Jacar Press Chapbook Prize. Connect with Jane and her work at her website, www.PalmFrondZoo.com, and in various publications.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available