Second Cities by Jill Bronfman

Jill Bronfman is in love and lust with the cities of the world––from Mykonos to Antwerp, Vancouver to Valencia––their waters, their colorful dialects and currencies, their food and drink: raclette, taiyaki, ramen, and patatas bravas. Second Cities is a detailed travelogue of sensual titillation circumnavigating the globe. “I am chewing on the remainders of this offering. Still,” claims this experienced travelling poet, and we trust she always will be. This is a richly evocative collection to send you dreaming of new places to explore and remembering your own past travels.

–Melissa McKinstry, Pushcart Prize Winner

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In Second Cities, Jill Bronfman slips past the polished surfaces of travel into the charged in-between—where a self can be “dressed with olive oil and salt,” or exchanged for “Every. Single. Thing.” These poems braid appetite, dislocation, and fleeting belonging into encounters that refuse to stay small, where women become many women and cities flicker between backdrop and accomplice. Written in a supple, shape-shifting lyric that moves between scene and spell, the work turns observation into transformation with quiet, disarming precision.

–AE Hines, author of Adam in the Garden and Any Dumb Animal

NEWS AND MORE:

Jill Bronfman talked about her recently-published novel, Thanks for Meeting Me Here, and her upcoming poetry collection, Second Cities, published by Finishing Line Press, on KRSH radio with Mindi in the Morning. You can listen to the 5-minute interview at https://www.krsh.com/getlit/.