by Jo Ann Clark (Author)
Called "a fossil record of the collective unconscious," 1001 FACTS OF PREHISTORIC LIFE is the work of a small-c creationist whose daring poems find and confound unholy, missing links between Darwinian survival and Scheherazadian untruths; between lies that bind and those that-after whatever our species or fashion-liberate us to take delight in, if not to forestall, our ineluctable demise.
Author Biography
Jo Ann Clark is the author of poems, translations, and critical reviews. Her work has been anthologized in "Hot Sonnets" and "Reactions4 New Poetry" and has appeared in many online and print journals, including "Boston Review, Lumn, The New Republic, Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, " and "Weave." She has taught writing at Bank Street College, St. Stephen's School in Rome, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was Director of CITYterm at The Masters School and, in 2012, was appointed Executive Director of The Hudson Valley Writers' Center. Although Clark was born on Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama, she spent her childhood on military outposts in Alaska. She now claims New York as home, where she lives in Sleepy Hollow with her spouse and son.