CONSIDER THE BODY, WINGED
​Jessica E. Pierce

“Electric . . . threaded with gods and angels, earthquakes and asteroids, and ever-present visitors from the kingdom Animalia. Like the many species of wasps that inhabit these pages, Pierce’s writing is attentive, sharp, and paper-winged. I was taken in by every atom of these poems, feeling, as I read, ‘My heart catching / on all their hearts.’”
—Brittney Corrigan, author of Daughters

“Consider the Body, Winged is a paradoxical wonder . . . On difficult subjects—incarceration, hauntings, & nervous daughter’s tender queries--Jessica Pierce writes with elegant accessibility, putting our fragile human existence into a ratio of perspective. As soon as the final stanza stopped reverberating in my heart—it was as if I didn’t have a choice—I started over.”
—Kevin Phan, author of Dears, Beloveds 
“Jessica Pierce’s poems have a kinship with the birds and insects she often summons in them—the red paper wasp, a hummingbird . . . Her work has the winged creature’s trick of inhabiting the moment while engaged in the necessary, future-focused activity of building the nest and nurturing the young.” 
—Nan Cohen, author of Unfinished City


100 pages | A5  5.83 x 8.27 in. | 2021 
ISBN-13: 978-1-7338246-5-1 (paperback)
$15
A Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets nominee, Jessica E. Pierce has poems in magazines including CALYX Journal, Bellingham Review, Tar River Poetry, Euphony, and Painted Bride Quarterly. Nimrod International Journal selected her as a finalist for the 2020 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. She was a finalist in the 2020 Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize from CALYX Journal, a finalist in New Ohio Review’s 2019 NORward Prize for Poetry, a finalist in the 2019 MVICW Poetry Contest, and the recipient of a 2019 MVICW Poet Fellowship.
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