Overview

""Steeped in early-aughts pop-culture, experimental poetics, and the absurdities of collegiate and political bureaucracy, The Worse For Wear is a guide for how to just get through the day in America, and then how to collect those days into a meaningful life. From early, awkward teenage crushes, to the disillusionments of middle age, this book is for those of us trying to map out how we got from there to here, to forgive our younger selves, and to accept our current ones. Hard-earned truths are both unfrocked in blunt, direct confrontation, and costumed-up in rich, joyous language. Super-smart, super-funny, super-gay, and super-heart-wrenching, Goldsmith's work is a celebration of poetry as one of our flawed humanity's greatest, redeeming habits."" -Robin LaMer Rahija, author of Inside Out Egg

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""Fresh and important. . . . What spills out, what cannot be contained finds its way to forms that both resist and shore up their subject. Experimentation meets everyday life in these poems that teem with virtuosic intensity. This collection offers something I don't often find: surprise."" -Sarah A. Etlinger, author of A Bright Wound

Author Information

Jenna Goldsmith is a poet and writer living in Northern Illinois. She is Senior Instructor I at Oregon State University Cascades and director of the low-residency MFA program in Writing. Her 2022 chapbook CRUSH was the winner of the Baltic Writing Residency Chapbook Contest. She was City Poet Laureate of Rockford, Illinois from 2023-2025.

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