Poetry. Co-editors of IXNAY magazine, Chris and Jenn McCreary have written a book which they have split exactly down the middle, one half housing Chris's poems and ode to "Twenty-one Suggested Readings," and the other, when flipped upside down, revealing Jenn's delightfully minimal poetry. A DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURES / THE EFFACEMENTS is the fourth title in the Philadelphia Publishing Project, which celebrates the diverse literary community of Southeastern Pennsylvania. "the water is speckled celadon. The water/ is blue-white dandelion milk.// we are compelled by these: reflection, symmetry, things/ botanical & churchly" - from "nocturne in blue & silver: cremorne lights," Jenn McCreary.

The Effacements/A Doctrine of Signatures

Literature & Fiction

McCreary, Chris

McCreary, Jenn

Poetry

Singing Horse Press

Errata Stigmata

Potes & Poets Press

Poetry. "Jenn McCreary's wry, disarming, dream-imbued reformulations of fairy-tale & folk-tale quests in & now my feet are maps make for an unconventionally pleasurable and challenging read. In point of fact, she turns the conventions of fantasy- inflected diction and dispiriting roles for female characters in on themselves, in large part through as subtle a handling of poetic sequencing and tone as I've encountered anywhere lately. These poems vividly remake the ground they take from a range of familiar sources, are addressed to readers of most ages, and do mean to change the way this world's collective sense of imagination knows itself."—Anselm Berrigan "A celestial recalibration is in the Jenn McCreary line. I love being in there, and it's for us, the biggest possible version of us. 'here is my ghost voice / amplification helmet & here is the engine you built / with your blood—' One day I took these poems to a rock by the water and encountered the protrusion of fortitude from every THING around me through the lens of her book. '& alterwise by owl-light: thistle-blood & born / with a backwards heart, I wasn't always this / fragile.' This book blows my mind, and this isn't a blurb, it's a witnessing. Planets come and go, but the vibratory poems like Jenn McCreary's stay on in the breaking molecules gnawed by light."—CAConrad "Pieces of a life filtered through a fractured mind, somehow made whole by the work itself."—Kristin Hersh "& NOW MY FEET ARE MAPS is a journey poem. The feet are Jenn McCreary's feet, my feet, the feet of anyone who has come through pain and confusion brought on by people or institutions who abuse their power. Jenn McCreary's work is hacked from the 'black box' at her core. She figured out what it said, how to decode it, and recode it into poetry. The power of her images (unhinged in fairytale and play), her apocalyptic humor, her fusion of time, and her perfectly attuned guidance through devastation all serve to help us make sense 'of another dark night / I'm learning to unwait.'"—Stacy Szymaszek

& now my feet are maps

Dusie Press

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