Location Services by Jeff Pearson

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Brimming with nervy energy, these poems spotlight systems we believe to be coherent, and offer us a glimpse of what’s missing. They chart a mental health crisis through a rental history, run an elegy through google maps. The poems often begin bound—sometimes burdened—by place, but manage to transcend physical location: “Forget about drying off/with the towel from the flooded toilet.//Forget about dead relatives.// Forget all around you.// Forgive all around you.” The real service of Location Services is that Pearson navigates us toward a new understanding.

–Bethany Schultz-Hurst, author of Miss Lost Nation

 

From “the closest place to the middle of nowhere,” Jeff Pearson creates deeply imagined and uncommon somewheres: charting loss, breakdowns, and human connections with a vision like no one else. In a landscape ravined by deaths and charted by Google Street View, these poems and their “tones of unlikeliness” are restlessly questioning and unforgettable relocations.

–Alexandra Teague, author of The Wise and Foolish Builders, and The Mortal Geography.

 

 

 

 

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Location Services

by Jeff Pearson

$14.99, paper

978-1-63534-674-9

2018

Jeff Pearson is a neuro-divergent poet who graduated from the University of Idaho’s MFA Program. He has been published by Noble / Gas Quarterly, Monkeybicycle, Otis Nebula, a capella zoo, Heavy Feather Review, Shampoo, Salt Front, Open Minds Quarterly, Axolotl, Barrelhouse, Entropy, and Moon City Review. He is The Managing Editor for Blood Orange Review and Poetry Editor for 5×5 Lit Mag and an instructor at Washington State University. Tweets at @legoverleg. Find more of his work at http://www.poesyjeffpearson.com

Cover Art by James WAR Lloyd. Find more of his work here: http://www.jameswarlloyd.com.

1 review for Location Services by Jeff Pearson

  1. Zachary Chapin –

    Jeff has an astute grasp of the literary spectrum. Not only can he teach Jeff can conceive and write. His writing is never arbitrary there is always moral significancy. Deep to light hearted purposeful prose written from a lifelong dedication. His most noticeable prowess is in environment, setting and cognitive descriptions. Those aspects skillfully blended together make for distinguished work. Location Services his latest book is a narrative satirical collection based on a novel idea. What if one were to travel and reminisce purely with modern technology? I’ve yet to come across entertaining adventures in verse that are as wholly reflective, concise and hilarious. Reading the numerous situations arising while touring a quaint town, secluded nook of nature or a large modern city is bizarrely funny to stone cold revealing. Stories about youthful mischief to the plannings of an asylum or course corrections navigating Google maps from within it’s own matrix. The serious toned tales will widen the eyes of peoples concerned with alarming states of our modern-day. I never been delighted to see errors or lag except in the pages of a book.

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