Chronic Transience | J. Allyn Rosser | Poetry
Forthcoming in September 2025: Chronic Transience, as the title suggests, is a book about facing mortality, and yet these poems themselves seem indestructible.” Peter Campion, executive editor at Unbound Edition Press, acquired Chronic Transience for the house and is editing the work. He writes, “Rosser’s formal skill is nonpareil. She’s a master of rhyme and meter, sentence and line. She can get more liveliness into a single word than many poets achieve in an entire poem. But her virtuosity always serves emotional truth, whether that’s the hilarity of ‘Notes on the Latin,’ the insouciance of ‘Evening Primrose,’ or the poignancy of ‘Assisted Living.’
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Chronic Transience, J. Allyn Rosser
$25.00
ISBN: 9798991957564
Fine Softcover; 80+ pages; 5.25”x7.5”
Publication Date: September 23, 2025
Summary
Chronic Transience, as the title suggests, is a book about facing mortality, and yet these poems themselves seem indestructible.” Peter Campion, executive editor at Unbound Edition Press, acquired Chronic Transience for the house and is editing the work. He writes, “Rosser’s formal skill is nonpareil. She’s a master of rhyme and meter, sentence and line. She can get more liveliness into a single word than many poets achieve in an entire poem. But her virtuosity always serves emotional truth, whether that’s the hilarity of ‘Notes on the Latin,’ the insouciance of ‘Evening Primrose,’ or the poignancy of ‘Assisted Living.’
Author
J. Allyn Rosser’s fourth collection of poems, Mimi’s Trapeze, appeared in 2014 from the University of Pittsburgh Press. Her work has been awarded the Morse Prize, the Crab Orchard Award, the New Criterion Poetry Prize, and Poetry magazine’s Bock and Wood prizes. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ohio Arts Council. She taught in Ohio University’s Creative Writing Program for many years, where she also served as Editor in Chief of New Ohio Review.
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