A life-long commitment to social evolution – and, occasionally, revolution – animates the poems in Jo-Ann Mort’s debut collection, A Precise Chaos. Moving from Mostar to Oaxaca, Paris to Taormina, Mort’s peripatetic poems reflect her experiences as a trade union activist, a political organizer, and a peace activist in the Middle East. Refusing to evade the hard questions called for by a life honestly examined, she asks: “We, who are so righteous./Where does it lead us?” By publishing her first collection in her sixties, Mort succeeds in distilling a wealth of experience into something like wisdom: “The men were larger than life/starting revolutions in their heads and in their classrooms…//The men were larger than life, /so life eluded them.”
Author: Jo-Ann Mort
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Arrowsmith Press
Published: 05/10/2025
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.23d
ISBN: 9798990405059
Language: English
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