Jack Feist

Tiger Leap Jack Feist

Tiger Leap is one part of a much larger poetic project, Paper Roses, which captures the archive of a life through found poems, journals, letters, and fragments. It is an exercise in "found biography" that takes as its subject the late American poet, Jack Feist, a figure whose significance to American letters is sure to grow with time. "Shall I be the Emily Dickinson of our age? No-there is already an Emily Dickinson of our age, and her name is Emily Dickinson. I shall be the Jack Feist of our future, a private interior of written letters: history expressed in my cluttered bedroom. Wherever there have been publications, they have never been the true work. The true work belongs to Feist and to the history of the future." Jack Feist 1983-2013