Jane Huffman
Jane Huffman’s debut collection, PUBLIC ABSTRACT, won the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, selected by Dana Levin. Jane is a doctoral student in poetry at the University of Denver and is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is editor-in-chief of Guesthouse, an online literary journal. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, The Nation, and elsewhere. She was a 2019 recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. She works as a freelance editor and creative consultant for poets, essayists, and fictionists. Source
[I Thought That I Could Love]
I thought
That I could love
My fear could
Build with it
A desk and chest
Of drawers
Like fear was
Made of pine
And nails
And glue could
Sew myself
Into a dress
With it or
Matching set
In shocking blue
Could plait
My hair with it
Could paint
With it could
Thin my paint
With it
Could spread
It like a sheet
Onto my bed
Could slice a loaf
Of bread on fear’s
Serrated edge
Published:
2023
Length:
Shorty
Literary Movements:
Contemporary
Anthology Years:
2024
Themes:
Doubt & Fear
Literary Devices:
Anaphora
a figure of speech in which words repeat at the beginning of successive clauses, phrases, or sentences
Enjambment
a line break interrupting the middle of a phrase which continues on to the next line
Internal Rhyme
A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next.
Slant Rhyme
A rhyme where the words have similar sounds in their stressed syllables.
Tercet
A stanza of three lines of verse that rhyme together or are connected by rhyme with an adjacent stanza.
Transferred Epithet
When an adjective usually used to describe one thing is transferred to another.