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by Charles Browning.
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by Charles "Or What?!" Orr
A Gringo Like Me
1st Printing: Softskull Press, 2005
2nd Printing:
Bloof Books, 2007
Southeast Review
"In her first go, this poet has given us one 'hot ass book ass’ to admire for a good long time."
David Lehman, Editor, Best American Poetry
"Jennifer L. Knox's poems are sexy, surprising and funny, and they give fresh proof that (in Blake's words) exuberance is beauty."
Verse Magazine
"Knox's first book, A Gringo Like Me, reads more like Richard Pryor with a MFA. But for all the blue humor, there's real craft on display…Knox has the ability to take a ridiculous situation and tell it in such a way that it seems real…[she] doesn't back off, doesn't blink."
The Columbia Journal of Amerian Studies
"Because she makes it look so easy, it's easy for the casual reader to ignore the strength and grace in the lines of Jennifer L. Knox’s A Gringo Like Me, as she carries us from one fresh image to the next. By the second read, it grows clear that a deep understanding of form and prosody underlies what are crafted to resemble poems of loose spontaneity."
Powells.com
"Only a couple of times a year do I truly get excited about a book of poetry. Jennifer L. Knox's Gringo Like Me (Soft Skull Press) is one of these rare gems. While reading it I kept thinking, I can't believe this is poetry."