Poetry. Fantasy, fear, and freedom all play parts in A STORY OF WITCHERY, a book-length narrative poem by Jennifer Calkins, and illustrated by Sarah Lane. Here we meet Emily, our "small and weedy" protagonist, an orphan complicit (perhaps) in her own abandonment, and who is caught up, as poet Amy Gerstler writes in her Introduction, in a story "entwined with science facts and twisted clinical fictions." In language rolling and tripping with spare precision, Calkins makes a modern pilgrim progress into the imagination and the dark world of medicine. Rich and haunting images create an seemingly familiar environment which, like the internal landscape of the protagonist, dissolves only to reform, until finally resolving into a healed whole.

A STORY OF WITCHERY

Literature & Fiction

Calkins, Jennifer

Poetry

Les Figues Press

<p>Fiction. Poetry. California Interest. Women's Studies. It's 1983. A woman drives through California with something in her trunk. There are ghosts on the road, and she is on the run.</p>

Fugitive Assemblage

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Kernpunkt Press

Genre Fiction

The 3rd Thing

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