Boys Behind Glass is a cheeky documentary of contemporary masculinity through the lens of matchmaking, pop culture, scientific “progress” and female gaze. This third collection from Jennifer Sperry Steinorth continues a trajectory of genre-bending poetry, this time in collaboration with artist Jenny Walton, whose documentary series Match/Enemy creates a visual algorithm of her experience on OKCupid and explores how men-seeking-women represent themselves via anonymity. In the first half of the book, watercolor portraits of single men are paired with irreverent “sonnets” gazing into the mind of a fictional woman looking at the men, looking for love. The second half is a maximalist kaleidoscope, masquerading as elaborate end notes, a diagnostic of loneliness through a wiki-esque labyrinth of technology and iconography. The culmination is a carousal of sex, selfies, heroes, and techies, what we long for & the many ways we hide.

Author Biography

Jennifer Sperry Steinorth’s books include Boys Behind Glass, A Wake with Nine Shades, and Her Read, A Graphic Poem, recipient of the Texas Institute of Letters’ Fred Whitehead Award and a Foreword Reviews Bronze Prize in Poetry. Her poetry has appeared at The Cincinnati Review, Denver Quarterly Review, Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, Missouri Review, Pleiades, Plume, and TriQuarterly. She has been awarded grants & fellowships from the University of Michigan, Yale, Vermont Studio Center, Community of Writers and elsewhere. She lectures at the University of Michigan and is at work on a biography of C.D. Wright.

Washington D.C. artist Jenny Walton holds an MFA from American University. Her work has been critically reviewed and shown in New York, Miami, Boston, Seattle and Italy. Her awards include grants from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Vermont Studio Center and Pyramid Atlantic Art Center.

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