{"id":778,"date":"2020-01-24T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/?p=778"},"modified":"2025-02-25T10:47:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T18:47:59","slug":"jackson-burgess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/jackson-burgess\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 85: Jackson Burgess"},"content":{"rendered":"
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About Roy Burgess<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Jackson Burgess is the author of Atrophy (Write Bloody Publishing, 2018) and the chapbook Pocket Full of Glass (Tebot Bach, 2017). He is a graduate of the University of Southern California and the Iowa Writers\u2019 Workshop, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow. His poetry and fiction are published or forthcoming in The Los Angeles Review, The Cimarron Review, Rattle, The Cincinnati Review, PANK, Colorado Review, The Boiler Journal, and elsewhere. He lives in Los Angeles, where he is at work on a novel and his second full-length collection of poems. (jacksonburgess.com)<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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A Profile of the Author<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Notes on \u201cMedicine\u201d<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A couple Thanksgivings ago, I sat down and wrote a chapbook-length series of poems like \u201cMedicine,\u201d trying to work through some life circumstances that felt a bit out of my control. Since then I\u2019ve been gradually editing them and sending them out to magazines. I liked the idea of a prose poem responding to itself through an erasure \u201cecho,\u201d whittling itself down until it became a self-reflexive call-and-response. I thought, \u201cIf you\u2019re gonna feel sad and solipsistic, you should probably lean into it formally, right?\u201d Now I\u2019ve been thinking about the process of revising old work, trying to re-enter the emotional or mental space you were in when you wrote the initial draft, respecting that original feeling while still incorporating what you have learned or become since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Music, Food, Booze, Tattoos, Kittens, etc.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Tom Waits and bottom-shelf whiskey feel pretty mandatory for me post-breakup\u2014at the moment I\u2019m revisiting The Black Rider, Waits\u2019 and William S. Burroughs\u2019 collaborative take on an old German Faustian tale. Love Phoebe Bridgers\u2019 cover of \u201cGeorgia Lee\u201d on the new Women Sing Waits album, too.
I just finished an advance copy of Jean Kyoung Frazier\u2019s Pizza Girl and can\u2019t get it out of my head. Pub date is June 9\u2014do yourself a favor and pre-order a copy. Frazier\u2019s the fucking truth.
I\u2019m closely following Bernie Sanders\u2019 presidential campaign, listening to old speeches from him and his surrogates (AOC, Dr. Cornel West, Killer Mike, etc.).
I spend an ungodly amount of time on YouTube. These days I think Conner O\u2019Malley has the most unhinged and underappreciated channel on the platform. I\u2019m also a big ASMR junkie. Anxiety\u2019s a motherfucker, but ASMR seems to cut right through it.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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“Medicine” by Jackson Burgess<\/a><\/h2>\n\n

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