Darkroom
University of Wisconsin Press
Winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry
Selected by Jean Valentine
Ronald Wallace, Series Editor
"Sylvia Plath wrote that if the novel is an open hand,
relaxed and expansive, then poetry is a closed fist that 'excludes and stuns.' Jazzy Danziger's first book of poems, Darkroom, published earlier this year, proves that the two need not be mutually exclusive. Danziger's work packs a punch, for sure; much of Darkroom concerns the poet's relationship with her mother, who committed suicide when Danziger was fourteen, and they are stunning in their carefully chosen, almost cinematic, details — and in their ferocity. But though the collection focuses tightly on Danziger's obsessions with memory and guilt and the question of whether in retelling a story one is distorting the truth of what happened, it does not exclude. By examining her own experiences so unflinchingly, Danziger sees beyond herself and shows her readers a new view of a familiar world."
Additional Press for Darkroom
“Dear Dr. Poetry” Ploughshares Blog, May 25, 2012
“Ruthlessly honest and unblinking, the poems in Jazzy Danziger’s debut collection, Darkroom, shimmer on the page” Riverfront Times, May 10, 2012
Interview with The Minnesota Review, April 17, 2012
Review from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 5, 2012
Review from St. Louis Magazine, March 21, 2012
“Best Local Poet: Jazzy Danziger” Riverfront Times, Best of St. Louis 2012