Trick Rider
by Jen Tynes
$16.00 | August 2013
Part rodeo queen, part Mad Max, Jen Tynes’ Trick Rider somersaults through a trompe l’oeil Wild West landscape made of body glitter and furs. Walking a fine line between performance and necessity, these poems juju a body out of giddy, vertiginous vernacular.Tynes’ speaker holds court, dazzles, and menaces: each insistently female body in her caravan is a threat, a trick, a state of emergency waiting to descend. If you are afraid, you’re right. Call the trick MUSCLE DANCING or TWO HEADED OUT OF FULL DARKNESS. If you ever want to pass for living again, read this book.
-MC Hyland
About the Author
Jen Tynes is the founding editor of horse less press. She is the author of two full-length books, The End of Rude Handles (Red Morning Press) and Heron/Girlfriend (Coconut Books). She is also the author or co-author of about a dozen chapbooks. She teaches and writes in Western Michigan.