Description
Day Job
by Jan Ball
$14.99, paper
978-1-64662-192-7
2020
Jan Ball has had 294 poems published or accepted in journals in the U.S., Australia, Great Britain, Canada, Czech Republic, India and Ireland in journals like: Atlanta Review, Calyx, Connecticut Review, Main Street Rag, Phoebe, and Verse Wisconsin. Her two chapbooks and first full length poetry book, I Wanted To Dance With My Father, were published by Finishing Line Press. When not writing, Jan likes to work in the garden at her farm and work out in Chicago at FFC with her personal trainer. She and her husband travel a lot but like to cook for friends when they are home.
Kathy Michas (verified owner) –
“Don’t become complacent when you read Jan Ball’s poems in “Day Job”. Right around the corner in many of her poems is a jolt that turns a seemingly ordinary experience into a twitch in the reader’s nervous system: a cadaver in a beer cooler; a deformed fetus; an unattractive aging body; a formula on how to kill someone; a few ex-nuns getting an adrenaline shot from shoplifting. The somewhat sinister nature of human beings lies just beneath the pleasantries and sets the reader on edge when he/she comes to them. Be prepared to clench your teeth a few times.”