Title: The Character
First published: 1999
Description: Winner of the 1998 Barnard New Women Poets Prize

The poems in Jena Osman's first volume embody the poem as performance, revealing the tensions between narrative coherence and Brechtian self-consciousness, and our constitution by "characters" of all types. Playful, mysterious, and challenging, *The Character* is for anyone interested in the inscription of power by means of language.
Subjects: Poetry, American poetry, Women authors, Poetry (poetic works by one author)
LC classification: PS3565.S6 C47 1999