Jesse Feinman 'God Emptied My Glass'
God Emptied My Glass is the first expanded collection of poems by Jesse Feinman (b. 1995). Written over a five year period, the 44 pieces in the book explore the nature of forgiveness, togetherness, and separateness in adjacency to the graceless passing of time. Taking visible cues from the likes of Robert Creeley, Anne Waldman, and other poets of the New York School, the work serves as an elongated love-letter to 'searching,' and speaks to how beautiful (or painful) it can be when the desperate quests to uncover a certain truth reveal an entirely new discovery altogether. Throughout God Emptied My Glass, Feinman makes frequent references to various places across the American Landscape and the countless anonymous people that populate them. It is in this quiet culmination of settings that he attempts to create and embed a gentle universality-- one that suggests these unraveling, complicated emotions actually find all us at some point in our lives. And maybe, in a way, it's pointless to try and run from them*, as what could be more human than feeling it all?
English Version / 14 x 20 cm / 64 pages
Threadswen softcover with flaps / silver foil / black printing
First printing of 500 copies / SP182
"All poems and images by Jesse Feinman
Opening quotes by Robert Creeley & Jean Cocteau
Book design by Jesse Feinman
Afterword by Loke Rahbek
Published by Shelter Press First printing, 2026
ISBN 978-2-36582-052-3
Jesse Feinman 'God Emptied My Glass'
God Emptied My Glass is the first expanded collection of poems by Jesse Feinman (b. 1995). Written over a five year period, the 44 pieces in the book explore the nature of forgiveness, togetherness, and separateness in adjacency to the graceless passing of time. Taking visible cues from the likes of Robert Creeley, Anne Waldman, and other poets of the New York School, the work serves as an elongated love-letter to 'searching,' and speaks to how beautiful (or painful) it can be when the desperate quests to uncover a certain truth reveal an entirely new discovery altogether. Throughout God Emptied My Glass, Feinman makes frequent references to various places across the American Landscape and the countless anonymous people that populate them. It is in this quiet culmination of settings that he attempts to create and embed a gentle universality-- one that suggests these unraveling, complicated emotions actually find all us at some point in our lives. And maybe, in a way, it's pointless to try and run from them*, as what could be more human than feeling it all?
English Version / 14 x 20 cm / 64 pages
Threadswen softcover with flaps / silver foil / black printing
First printing of 500 copies / SP182
"All poems and images by Jesse Feinman
Opening quotes by Robert Creeley & Jean Cocteau
Book design by Jesse Feinman
Afterword by Loke Rahbek
Published by Shelter Press First printing, 2026
ISBN 978-2-36582-052-3