User Guide by Judith Pacht

$14.00

 

A chapbook of poems. Limited pressrun.  Collector’s Item.
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Reading this skillful suite of poems is like sitting down in a pleasant metropolitan home, thumbing through the catalogues, and gradually realizing that nothing is what it seems.  User’s Guide presents quietly personal poems of memory, relationships, and the passage of time, contemplated though the lens of probability theory, catalogues, how-to manuals, and the California Department of Motor Vehicles Handbook. A moving chapbook of poems.
–Richard Garcia, author of The Flying Garcias, Rancho Notorious, and The Persistence of Objects.
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In User’s Guide, Judith Pacht weaves poems on the loom of the “instructions” we’re given—user’s guides for gadgets like “the Handheld Germ-Eliminating Light” and “Circulation-Enhancing Travel Socks,” among other things—and in so doing offers a wry, sly, wickedly funny and deadly serious commentary on our culture of technology and consumption.
–Cecilia Woloch, author of Narcissus (winner of Tupelo Press’s Snowbound Competition), Late, Tsigan, and Sacrifice.
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User Guide

by Judith Pacht

$14, paper

Judith Pacht’s new book of poems, Infirmary for a Private Soul (Tebot Bach) and her chapbook, A Cumulus Fiction were published in March 2019. Her book Summer Hunger (Tebot Bach), won the 2011 PEN Southwest Book Award for Poetry. Her earlier chapbooks include User’s Guide, St. Louis Suite (Finishing Line Press), and Falcon.
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A three-time Pushcart nominee, Pacht was first place winner in the Georgia Poetry Society’s Edgar Bowers competition. Her work has appeared in journals that include Ploughshares, Runes, Nimrod and Phoebe, and her poems have been translated into Russian for publication in Foreign Literature (Moscow). Her work appears in numerous anthologies.
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Pacht has read at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, and Charleston, SC’s Piccolo Spoleto Festival. She has taught at political poetry at Denver’s annual LitFest at the Lighthouse, and at UCLA Extension.
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She lives in Los Angeles with her partner, Kenneth Fisher
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