Danelle LejeuneFine Art Photographer
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Danèlle Lejeune, poet and photographer
On Danèlle Lejeune's book tours, at coffee shops, at faculty parties when folks find out that she was once a pig farmer in Iowa and now is a poet in Savannah, Georgia, they ask, wide eyed and curious, "How on earth did she get here?" She often jokes that what happened involved a fourteen-foot American alligator, a strange Czech man in a bar in Minneapolis, and a pinch of Midwestern farm crisis. It’s too long of a story for an author bio but will maybe someday be a Hallmark movie. Danèlle's poetry conveys this grit, the loneliness of a decaying ecology of both earth and human spirit-- but resilience too. Critics have said her ability to capture moments of tenderness are nothing short of image musicality. Her poetry bends these borders too, not quite a language poet of New York and not a Black Mountain Southerner either, she writes like a woman in a farm field with a broken heart, a goddess with bees swarming her like a halo, children sleeping at her feet. Myth and technology clash as the stars are captured and held by IT executives and traffic swells up at their transformation and longing for the ocean. She puts Schrodinger’s cat in a domestic violence shelter, writes a love poem to the physicist who declared time doesn’t exist, & eavesdrops on bulldozers in couple’s therapy. You can find her work here at www.danellelejeune.com and at various galleries in the Southeast. You can find her arguing about onions and random historical trivia just outside Savannah, GA in a brick house that has yet to blow down with her children and her husband novelist/poet Tony Morris. They run the Ossabaw Writers’ Retreat together. They also have a cat that likes to trash talk the neighbors, or everybody Lache pas la patate! Danèlle Lejeune https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/incompleteness-theory-by-danelle-lejeune/ |
