The Court of No Record

Jenny Molberg is the author of the poetry collections Marvels of the Invisible and Refusal. As a National Endowment for the Arts fellow, she has published in Ploughshares, the Rumpus, AGNI, Adroit Journal, Oprah Quarterly, and other literary outlets. She is associate professor of creative writing at the University of Central Missouri, where she edits Pleiades.

"In Jenny Molberg's harrowing new collection, the witness of documentary poetry meets the fearlessness of the confessional mode. What results is a book of powerful testimony."--Shara McCallum "The Court of No Record takes us on a Dantesque journey through the infernal landscapes of toxic masculinity, intimate partner violence, and legal chicanery as the speaker's poems are used as evidence against her."--Philip Metres "Molberg's The Court of No Record questions our fascination with violence--specifically against women--and our woefully inadequate and misogynist response to it. Dead, abused, or threatened women (the stuff of so much of our detective/thriller entertainment) are given voice in these fearless poems. This is gorgeous poetry of witness, of social and political examination, of deep intelligence, and of a valiant heart."--Denise Duhamel