{"id":9062,"date":"2016-07-12T12:54:14","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T16:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=9062"},"modified":"2022-11-15T12:35:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T17:35:46","slug":"off-season","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/off-season\/","title":{"rendered":"The Off-Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe Off-Season<\/em> was a finalist for the 2017 Golden Crown Literary Society Award in Poetry.<\/p>\n

The Off-Season<\/em><\/h1>\n

Jen Levitt<\/h2>\n

The poems in The Off-Season<\/em> are populated with things\u2014\u201890s TV shows, mix-tapes, crosstown buses, winter
\nbeaches\u2014signifiers that trace a trajectory from girlhood to adulthood and bring to the surface feelings and
\ndesires that ordinarily stay hidden. We witness the strangeness of modern life, relive our own adolescent
\nawkwardness and listen in on conversations with dead poets, TV characters, family members and intimates.
\nWith humor, fierceness and generosity, The Off-Season<\/em> grapples with the question of how to be in the world.<\/p>\n

from \"Sometimes, Gender,\" from The Off-Season<\/em>:\n\n...I wanted to be\npopular, then smart, then someone\u2019s\nfavorite, instead got a laptop & back-page\neditorial in the yearbook. I wrote Action\nis impractical if the war is faceless.<\/em>\nI had a crush on every girl who smoked\nin the gymnasium basement. At night\nevery star looked like a pearl, but close up\neach one was faithless, close up my body\nruthless. I cried when my best friend\ngot a real boyfriend, the water polo captain.\nSex was temporary, tenuous. Our tenth-\ngrade history teacher\u2014we called him Heath\u2014 \nwas born Heather. We didn\u2019t know \nuntil later. Imperceptible the difference \nbetween phenotype & Photoshop, pronouns \n& antecedents, my body, its fixed uses.<\/pre>\n
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