The Naif Jens Meijen journeying from the Philippines to

journeying from the Philippines to Libya

A tour de force of dizzying brilliance

her sentences enfold black feminism in verse

When she feeds streams of “official” language – from Supreme Court opinions to the procedural chatter of Predator drone pilots – through the filter of her poetic investigations

and bestselling poets

The Naif Jens Meijen journeying from the Philippines toValerie Hsuing The Naif lives in a practiced state of naivetya language fasted, resource starved loopand it lives as a test: of what awareness, what becoming, what imagination is possible under the scarcest of conditions, conditions that can make it impossible to deceive or beguile (others or oneself). It is a book as glass house reversed, where the person walking by can see all the way in, but the person inside cant see halfway outand yet the person