Title Nine by Jenna Goldsmith

Title Nine begins in the grocery store check-out line—the most mundane of places—abandoned cart of polenta and Swedish Fish evidence of some interruption, a shopping trip gone majorly wrong. What might occur to cause a shopper to abandon her food, would-be supper, future nourishment? In Jenna Goldsmith’s radical new collection, the poet investigates a series of interruptions through the constant and petty correspondences that steer our modern lives: email, phone call, university missive, federal statute. But when we need, really rightfully need the institution’s protections and advocacy, the ambulance to arrive, its sirens at full volume, what then of its silences?