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Cover Image: Dusk in Piccadilly Circus, London
(Photo by Jason Roush, 1997)
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"Fasten
your seatbelt. Jason Roush, at the wheel of a 2004 Constellation, is about to take you there. This maker of pyrotechnic
nocturnes pricks out patterns of imagery and sound with the combined skills of the jeweler and folk-rock star, showing us
how to be wise and fresh in the same breath. Ohio, which seems to be the Poetry State, adds a new brilliant to the crown
that already boasts Hart Crane, James Wright, Richard Howard, and Rita Dove."
—Alfred Corn, author of
Atlas and Contradictions
"There's something exceptionally clean about these
poems. Though emotional they aren't messy, though full of regular young stuff, they're more fairytale than worldly. Jason's
not at all like Rilke, but he's writing on a very light edge that kind of twinkles—nearly sad about being alive, yet
consumed with taking a picture."
—Eileen Myles, author of Sorry, Tree "Meticulous, candid, poised, this outstanding first book has the passion and cool of
art. Jason Roush is a striking, genuine new talent, and After Hours is a wonderful read."
—Robert
Pinsky, author of Gulf Music
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Jason Roush teaches
writing, literature, and cultural studies at Emerson College and New England Institute of Art. His poems, criticism, and other
writings have appeared in Best Gay Poetry 2008, Bay Windows, Breakwater
Review, Brooklyn Review, Cimarron Review, Expression Magazine, The
Fossil Record, The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, The James White Review, Lambda
Book Report, Out Magazine, Provincetown Magazine, RFD (Radical
Faerie Digest), 236, Verse Daily,
and the anthology This New Breed: Gents, Bad Boys and Barbarians 2
(Web text and images protected
under copyright, 2010)
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(Author Photo by Paul Rivenberg, 2003)
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