DUH (paperback)

Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo is an MFA candidate at Rutgers University-Camden, where she has recently written about hand models, mediums, and trees. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Hobart, Peach Mag, Afternoon Visitor, Bedfellows Magazine, and Hot Pink Mag, among others. Her audio pieces have aired on NPR, KQED, the City Arts & Lectures podcast, and The Kitchen Sisters Present podcast. She can be followed @tall.spy (Instagram) and @tall__spy (Twitter) but she can never be caught.

"Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo writes as though she has cheat codes on; no one should be able to write hilarious, gut wrenching, weird, gorgeous poetry with the ease of perfume floating on a gentle A/C wind in a mall. And yet, here we have just that in ‘DUH.’ A remarkable work that stands alongside Ethan Frome, Possibly in Michigan, & the first 3 Ramones albums as expert lessons in how to have so much magic jammed in such a short space. Should you buy & read this? ‘DUH,’ of course you should."

— Clem Flowers 

"Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo is the new funniest writer I know. In ‘DUH,’ a sense of humor and a sense of form are one thing. Each joke becomes a set of conceptual parameters: games imply rules, and vice versa. Through their conceptual transparency these poems reveal a lyricism and an unpredictability breathing a wilder air beyond."

— Sophia Dahlin 

"Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo rules, obviously! She is literally writing some of the funniest poems of our time, duh! And with heat and heart and head! You will laugh and maybe cry and pee your pants a little while reading these, just warning you. Who else could write so heartbreakingly about Polly Pocket? Who else is such a clever observer of the world in all its various beautiful and ugly and mundane and sexy and cool and smart and sad and annoying and yummy iterations? And who is doing it with such deeply embroidered pockets of image and language? These poems will make you drool and gush and want to lick the book after, they're so good! No one is doing it like her!"

— Emily Bark Brown