Critical Commentary
Praise for my individual work:
Luis Urrea: “Jackie White is encoding a new language [that] re-evaluate and redefine the world as they light the page [and] conjure the world in all its questions and shadows, sideways glances and hollows. Her poems risk showing us life as it is really lived—fully present. Vivid.”
Reginald Gibbons: “Jackie White writes, ‘the woman/ I used to be asked for her name back,” and in these poems White gives herself back her name in the form of longings and paradoxes and images that are sometimes as arrestingly strange as Magritte’s.”
Praise for my collaborative work with Simone Muench:
Anna Marie Hong on Hex & Howl: “Like heroines harrowing Hell, Simone Muench and Jackie White rock and reel in scintillating sonnets and portraits, resurrecting the girls buried in the woods and gardens of misogynistic brutality…giving voice and ear to those who were not heard, in searing soaring stereo.”
Ed Roberson: “The Under Hum is a spectacle of poetic collaboration…in various forms from perspectives and lines from a wide range of authorial references. This book is almost operatic in its show of virtuousities.”
