In “Three Chores,” Mierau turns the prolific messes of the human body into “fanciful concentrations.” These are not the usual taking-out-the-garbage messes but, rather, the accumulations of the dreaming eye and the overactive follicle—organic messes that gather and persist despite us.
Jennifer Still
Jennifer Still is a Winnipeg-based poet working at the intersection of language and material forms. Her latest collection COMMA (Book*hug) received the 2018 Lansdowne Prize for Poetry.