The three sequences of Groundwork comprise a sophisticated reworking of European myth on the order of Yeatss The Tower. The first is situated by an archaeological dig in modern-day Tunisia, the second by the Garden of Eden, the third by the waters and islands of Homers Odyssey. Together they form a devastating critique of contemporary aesthetics.Few poets today are versed in the archetypes that inform the European tradition, and even fewer can manipulate them with the grace of Amanda Jernigan. With rivers of exquisite prosody and a panoramic intellectual scope, her Groundwork has recharted the poetic landscape and by doing so, has changed it forever.
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