Jenny Boully

Raw and delicate, poignant and poetic, Shelby Smoak’s Bleeder exposes the sorrow and sometimes sweetness of coming to age with HIV. In…

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“Let those strikes of lightning come so we will quickly know what leaves us.”

— Jenny Boully

“But in those days, I thought that by believing in magic and miracles, by believing hard enough, harder than anyone on earth,…

— Jenny Boully

“It is not the story I know or the story you tell me that matters; it is what I already know, what…

— Jenny Boully

“The experience of time translates itself into language, and language translates itself into distance, which translates itself into longing, which is the…

— Jenny Boully

“I only said I loved you in my poetry.”

— Jenny Boully

“It was the particular feel of him that made me want to go back: everything that is said is said underneath, where,…

— Jenny Boully

“I suppose we were merely on loan in each other's lives; these last years have already broken their secrets, have already gone…

— Jenny Boully

“How is it the seasons change? Do they change so slowly so creepingly because we so rarely break away from whatever it…

— Jenny Boully