I am grateful to Connotation Press Associate Poetry Editor Ösel Jessica for these kind words (July, 2019): What stands out about Jeri Theriault’s poems are the narrators who are speaking each poem into being. Whether the poem is spoken from an “I” or a “we,” there is the sense of a complete world of which we are only seeing a glimpse. Elisions and staccato short lines give her poem “the girl with [al]most useless hands” a haunting feel as we hear the voice of a bride says, “I learned / what might be done // with smile & / nod…” In “ornamental” an unidentified “we”: “we take [always] // beauty where we can,” may be a couple, the universal we, the ornamental trees themselves, or all of these voices at once, together. Each of her poems works around an absence, and this gives her work a haunting quality.
http://www.pw.org/content/jeri_theriault My entry in the Poets and Writers directory.
http://find.mainewriters.org/writers/jeri_theriault/ My entry in the FIND MAINE WRITERS directory.
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