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    A Number of Stunning Attacks
    A Number of Stunning Attacks
    A Number of Stunning Attacks
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    A Number of Stunning Attacks

    By Jessi MacEachern

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    A raw and intimate testimony of the spatial and emotional difficulty of facing the self and the other

    A Number of Stunning Attacks contributes to the ongoing association of fragmented forms and women’s writing, yet the insistent repetitions and crystallized imagery produce something more coherent than a fragment and more dynamic than a single whole. Drawing on a line of innovative women’s poetics in Canada, these poems recall the radical experiments of Lisa Robertson, Erìn Moure, and Gail Scott. Intoxicated by disorientation, the reader will ask: Which city is this? Which woman is this? Which reader am I?

    "Fans of Lisa Roberston and Erín Moure will find lots to love in these pages."—Open Book

    “MacEachern’s poetry demands attention to the stunning beauty of her craft.”—Quill & Quire, starred review

    "A smart and stellar debut."—Winnipeg Free Press

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInvisible Publishing
    Release dateMar 19, 2021
    ISBN9781988784755
    A Number of Stunning Attacks
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    Jessi MacEachern

    Jessi MacEachern lives in Montreal, QC, where she teaches English literature. Her research has been published in Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne and CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event. Her poetry has been published in various places, including Poetry Is Dead, Vallum, MuseMedusa, Canthius, PRISM, and CV2.

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      A Number of Stunning Attacks - Jessi MacEachern

      Cover: A Number of Stunning Attacks, written by Jessi MacEachern. Background is composed of slivers of different images arranged like a fractured mirror.

      Table of Contents

      Cover

      Table of Contents

      Advance Praise

      Title Page

      Copyright information

      Formatting note

      Part One: The Moat Around Her Home

      Part Two: Stagger and Sing

      Part Three: Notes On Moving

      Part Four: A Miniature Gender

      Part Five: A Number of Stunning Attacks

      Part Six: Orwomen

      Acknowledgements

      About the Author

      About Invisible Publishing

      Landmarks

      Cover

      Copyright

      Part One: The Moat Around Her Home

      Acknowledgements

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      "In her amazing debut volume of poetry, Jessi MacEachern unfolds a panoply of encounters, some at points of intersection, others at moments of separation. They are uneasily

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