Darkroom (Brittingham Prize in Poetry)
“This poet takes risks: not easy, her originality waits and gives life. In Danziger’s flying language and deep intelligence, here are grief not formalized, joy not smoothed out.”—Jean Valentine, Brittingham Prize judge and National Book Award winner“Jazzy Danziger is the girl next door of American letters, giving voice to the ordinary with an astonishing grace, language at once elegant and fierce, deft and dazzling. The divergence of her themes electrifies the graceful surfaces of her work with intricacy and desire.Darkroomis a luminous, stunning debut.”—Alice Anderson, author ofHuman Nature“These are challenging poems, deeply invested in Danziger’s own self, turned inward. And yet the lyricism, the long casts of memory draw you into the past. Danziger’s chant of her own pain translates into the memories we all have of childhood, as we view her album of adolescence and growth.”—St. Louis Magazine Blog“Ruthlessly honest and unblinking, the poems in Jazzy Danziger’s debut collection,Darkroom,shimmer on the page.”—Riverfront Times