A Very Large Array

Osman's writing reinvents poetry as an instrument for dissecting vision, language and power This extensive collection of poet Jena Osmans acclaimed work spans more than 30 years, gathering poems from journals and books long out of print. Her poetry traces overlooked visual and linguistic incidents across centuries of American history, transforming "official" languagefrom Supreme Court opinions to the chatter of Predator drone pilotsinto writing that is comic, chilling and relentlessly inventive. Jena Osmans (born 1963) books include Motion Studies (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2019), Public Figures (Wesleyan University Press, 2012), The Network (Fence Books, 2010, selected for the National Poetry Series in 2009), An Essay in Asterisks (Roof Books, 2004) and The Character (Beacon Press, winner of the 1998 Barnard New Women Poets Prize). She lives in Philadelphia.