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    The Treasures That Prevail
    The Treasures That Prevail
    The Treasures That Prevail
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    The Treasures That Prevail

    By Jen Karetnick

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    The Treasures That Prevail is about climate change and its effects on Miami; the poems in this collection confront the ills of modern society in general, mourn both public and personal losses, and predict the difficulties of a post-modern life in a flooded, Atlantis-like lost city. The narrators are two unnamed women, married with a teenage daughter and a teenage son, who live in a part of Miami that will be underwater unless action is taken. The Treasures That Prevail is a parable about what could happen to any of our low-lying coastal cities if we don’t start to make changes now.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWhitepoint Press
    Release dateSep 24, 2016
    ISBN9781944856045
    The Treasures That Prevail
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    Jen Karetnick

    Jen Karetnick is a Miami-based writer, poet, dining critic, and educator. She is the author or coauthor of sixteen books, including the award-winning cookbook Mango and The 500 Hidden Secrets of Miami. Her latest book of poetry, The Treasures That Prevail, was a finalist for the Poetry Society of Virginia Book Prize. She is co-founder/co-editor of the literary journal, SWWIM Every Day. Her freelance work has appeared in various outlets including TheAtlantic.com, GoodHousekeeping.com, Guernica, Miami Herald, Southern Living, Today.com, and USA Today. Find her on Twitter @Kavetchnik and on Instagram and Facebook @JenKaretnick.

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    • 4/5
      This is a quirky little book of poetry. Not only does it play with very difficult-to-pull-off rhyme schemes (I think I saw a ghazal, a sonnet, a sestina, and a villanelle, but don't quote me on that), each poem utilizes at least one "found" poetic verse. The result is that the Miami Karetnick depicts--one whose shores are buried by the wash of tidal floods (a result of global warming)--is construed through the happenstance of the detritus that bobs along the surface, both meaningnessly and meaningfully.
    • 4/5
      This book is very powerful, thought provoking. I didn'the expect it to be a very dark book because I didn't read the synopsis fully, so that i don't ruin or spoil the poems for myself. I really enjoyed it, but at some point in there made me cringe. It's very discriptive, but in a very short sense of way. I'm going to read it again to make all my favorite parts of it because it's a very honest, and I really like that. I felt a lot of power in every word. That is absolutely fantastic, and I love the social aspects in here because they all make sense even though they're pretty dark. I love this, and I hope I get to read more books or poems like this in the future. Highly recommend for anyone that's not afraid of the dark truths that are usually hidden.
    • 4/5
      It was a witty book of poetry that was hard to put down. I enjoyed reading the flow of beautiful ideas.I would recommend it to poetry enthusiasts.

    Book preview

    The Treasures That Prevail - Jen Karetnick

    Wanna make a prep plan for sea level rise?

    —from 40 Things You'll Never Hear a Miamian Say, TimeOut Miami

    Miami as the Narrator of the Next Great

    American Novel: A Personetelle

    I've been called the Gateway to the Caribbean.

    I've been nicknamed the American Riviera.

    But these voices give other places authority.

    I will run this story like a country of my own

    making, play with its characters like a child

    with grapes, change settings from key to mainland

    with no regard for causeways or beach sand

    or clear-cut dialogue that makes editors smile.

    I will run this story like a country of my own

    and the plot will conflict with itself, man versus

    hurricane, man versus not the heat but what is

    the humidity. It won't all make sense when done.

    Call me a god or just a dog with a fishbone,

    but I will run this story like a country of my own.

    Rebranding the Gods

    Used to be, the gods were less

    expensive. Used to be they'd take

    a plump, golden chicken in exchange

    for ordinary feats – the turning

    of a noncompliant man into a laurel

    tree, a woman into a carved and polished

    column of the finest fleur de sel.

    That kind of thing. Then Nike became

    a problem with her fancy chariot,

    her mantra of win, win, win. Certainly

    her sponsor encouraged the beat, beat

    of her muscular wings, pulsing open

    and closed like gills. Currency caught on.

    The market ran to competition. It was

    all the foulest play from there.

    Ode to a Broken Zip Code

    I. Subdivision

    Avocado and mango

    trees line up

    despite

    property lines, ficus

    privacy fences, destroyed by white fly, AWOL soldiers.

    II. Venue

    Committees of vultures

    hold council, decide

    policy

    from the highest

    roof, corroding all they survey with their waste.

    III. Spirit Animals

    Miccosukee no longer

    paddle up canals

    trading

    venison for mango.

    Still, the ghosts of deer hang like fruit.

    Home of the R.I.P. T-Shirts

    A gritty pocket of Liberty City,

    papered with pictures of the dead,

    this booth is the ghetto's obituary.

    When a well-known dope boy is murdered,

    Studio X is overwhelmed with orders.

    They come to stamp their grief

    on plaques and neck-lace charms, to press

    their loss on standard tees

    as symbols of immortality

    to wear to wakes, the store, the Laundromat,

    the gas station in thuggin' memory.

    Here, designers are archivists of death

    and apathy is the color of choice.

    Rough Diamond Fib

    You,

    who

    mistook

    the trash bin

    of a subsidized

    suicide for a mannequin,

    patrol the parking lot of your body's neighborhood,

    case the front desk, the balcony.

    Reserve help. Fired,

    your corpse, left

    behind,

    will

    smoke.

    Dear YKW,

    TBH, I'm still SMH. I should have

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