YOU DA ONE
(By Jennifer Tamayo)
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"Jennifer Tamayo's corrosive, excrementally beautiful new book takes place around two key phrases from Rihanna—'you da one' and 'what's my name'—that could represent the very stabilizing dynamics of the symbolic order: the 'one' tells the narrator who she is. But in a violently mediated, liquified world (shot through with internet ads for drugs and sex), the identity of 'da one' is catastrophically ambiguous (Lover or father? Dead or alive?) and the question 'what's my name' has multiple valences: Is it a threat or a seduction? Hysterical or beligerent? Halfway through the book, Tamayo asks 'Have you had enough yet?' I have not. I keep going even if it damages me, especially if it damages me. It damages me. Tamayo has written a violent, desperate and absorbing book. Don't hate her for her jouissance."—Johannes Goransson
Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA
Jennifer Tamayo is the author of the collection of poems and art work, RED MISSED ACHES READ MISSED ACHES RED MISTAKES READ MISTAKES (Switchback, 2011) and POEMS ARE THE ONLY REAL BODIES (Bloof Books, 2013). Her second full collection of poems and artwork, YOU DA ONE, was selected as the Elizabeth P. Braddock Prize winner for Coconut Books. Since 2010, JT has served as the Managing Editor for Futurepoem, an independent NYC press publishing contemporary poetry and prose. She lives and works in New York City.”
