


Last Book by Jill Magi
This book excavates language from my notebooks dated 2001 through 2015, and much of the language is of unkown origin and untraceable. Apologies for any citation ommissions. Language in quotes is likely from Meg Forajter, Gilles Deleuze, Evie Shockley, Costica Bradatan, Leland Hickman, Adrienne Rich, Patrick Durgin, Allen Weiss, Frederick Douglass, Paul Robeson, Margaret Wertheim, Sarah Tarkanay, Deborah Meadows. This book was compiled in June of 2015. 500 copies were printed in July and exhibited in stacks in September of the same year.
Jill is a poet, artist, and educator who works in text, image, and textile. The author of six books of poetry and numerous handmade books and book-arts objects housed at the University at Buffalo Poetry Collection, Jill ran Sona Books for ten years, publishing chapbooks of experimental works that she described as “risky, quiet, and community-based.” Her most recent book, SPEECH (Nightboat 2019), is set in a city of middles: something like the Middle East and something like the Midwest of the US where the fictional wanderer who navigates these places resides in a female body of middle age. Her other full-length books of poetry are LABOR, SLOT, Cadastral Map, Torchwood, and Threads, all published by small presses dedicated to innovative and experimental literature.
Based in the UAE, JARA Collective is a publishing project started by Sarah Almehairi, Shamma Al Bastaki, and Jill Magi. To be fluid; to constellate. JARA feels networked, where our intersecting lines–sometimes lines of walking/driving, of flight, and internet lines–intersect or hover together with density around/inside Abu Dhabi. Is the energy of “UAE-ness” sensing that for nearly every person “here” there is a “there” being navigated via internet, bank transfer, passport, wanderline, city-space, desert-space, sending gifts to another home. Maybe this is the ideal place for poetry.
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