With Paper for Feet

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