About Jendi Reiter
Jendi Reiter is the author of the novels Two Natures and Origin Story; the story collection An Incomplete List of My Wishes; and six poetry books and chapbooks, including Made Man and Bullies in Love. Their awards include two Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowships for Poetry, the Oscar Wilde Award from Gival Press, the Saints & Sinners Festival Award for Poetry, and the Rainbow Award for Best Contemporary Gay Fiction. They are the editor of the writing resource site WinningWriters.com. They live with their family in Western Massachusetts.
Praise for Introvert Pervert
Few poets can alchemize potty humor, incest survivorship, and pop culture and render the creation into YHWH-facing art. But Jendi Reiter can. In Introvert Pervert, be it through cruising erasures or an homage to Tony Soprano, the speaker dips his toe into a lake that was once frozen, a “river of jawbones” or “the flood with the carnivores” and their “reptilian sludge.” The undertow—a strained but evolving marriage, “people” who “love sunrises and want me dead,” the memory of a mother unmothering—is mighty, but the poet’s tide is stronger. What the speaker calls a “blunt instinct to worship” the reader might, and should, call an honor to witness.—Remi Recchia, author of Addiction Apocalypse
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