How often the past is a puzzle. How often it takes something other to jar loose memory. In Jigsaw, Diane Glancy responds to visual art, constructing a series of poems as puzzle pieces. Her work relies on the source engine of another discipline, yet in the end, the poems disconnect from the visual images that spawned them. Jigsaw uses the concept of the first world-map cut apart to make a puzzle. Re-assemblage of pieces is the focus of Glancy’s work. The poems uncover the remains of memory on a farm and the danger of a primitive world. Weaving narrative and abstract, the work severs from the post to follow the charge into the ekphrastic world. Jigsaw documents the struggle. The desire. The imagination that cuts back to the sparse farmland of her grandparents and the dirt roads that traveled there.
Diane Glancy is a member of the Poetry Society of Texas and the Denton Poets Assembly. She is professor emerita at Macalester College. For the last five years she taught in the low-residency MFA program at Carlow University in Pittsburgh. She also taught a cohort at The Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. Her 2020 and 2021 books are Island of the Innocent, a Consideration of the Book of Job, and A Line of Driftwood, the Ada Blackjack Story. In 2022 she published Home Is the Road, Wandering the Land, Shaping the Spirit. She has received two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and an American Book Award. Her other books and awards are on her website www.dianeglancy.com
Diane Glancy is a member of the Poetry Society of Texas and the Denton Poets Assembly. She is professor emerita at Macalester College. For the last five years she taught in the low-residency MFA program at Carlow University in Pittsburgh. She also taught a cohort at The Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. Her 2020 and 2021 books are Island of the Innocent, a Consideration of the Book of Job, and A Line of Driftwood, the Ada Blackjack Story. In 2022 she published Home Is the Road, Wandering the Land, Shaping the Spirit. She has received two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and an American Book Award. Her other books and awards are on her website www.dianeglancy.com
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