ISBN: 1909208353 9781909208353

Category: Poetry / General

Page count: 96

<p>Drawing together Jennifer A. McGowan's poetry of myth and folktale, and the frailties - human or otherwise - behind them, <i>With Paper for Feet</i> explores, mostly from a female perspective, the guts it takes to live or - often - die, un-heroically. Her characters laugh, argue, complain, suffer, <br>curse.<br> ...Gold is heavy, <br> and chafes....<br>aware that more is expected of them, but unwilling to play up. <p>Praise for Jennifer A. McGowan's work<br>...gritty thought; wit; striking candour - an unafraid recognition<br> of life's richness and desolation; memorable detail; all these are <br>underpinned by a graceful, subtle, quite lovely way with language. <br> Kevin Crossley-Holland <p>...bedecked with wit, irony, bittersweet folly and dictional-shifts <br>jazzy enough to make a reader dance. Gray Jacobik <p>... precise, observant and deep into mythology. <br> Claribel Alegría</p>