Old Business Jackie Wang where she lived from 1983

where she lived from 1983 until her death in 2009

an editor's note by Tender Buttons Press publisher Lee Ann Brown

displacing and distorting our sense of intimacy

Langzaam glijden we langs een helling en raakt onze tijd op

Old Business Jackie Wang where she lived from 1983Ryan Dobran The poetry of Ryan Dobran begins in a congenial, observational mode and crystallizes swiftly into an engrossing lattice of voice and affect, a prismatic language that pivots unassumingly through shades of the quotidian and the disenchanted, the earnest and the circumspect, the ingenuous and the vatic. It is a recognizably contemporary poetry: familiar discourses and lifeworlds made uncanny by an exacting realism, conscientious of the