Inbetweenland

by Jacks McNamara

Part love song, part howl, part incantation, Inbetweenland is the first book-length collection of Jacks McNamara’s poems, prose, and hybrid experiments in the neon vernacular of being alive. Mapping out radical trajectories through loss, violence, and queer desire, McNamara creates a luminous archive of survival and resilience in a self-destructing world. A visual artist as well as a writer, the author relies heavily on the unexpected image to chronicle the impossible journey through body, family, and history–towards home. From the borderlands of madness to the unpredictable shape of peace, Inbetweenland bears unflinching witness to a rarely charted geography, offering the reader a resonant poetics of insurrection and grace.

Genres: Poetry, Queer, LGBT, Disability

79 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2013

About the author

Jacks McNamara is a genderqueer writer, artist, activist, and healer based in New Mexico. Co-founder of The Icarus Project, an adventure in mutual aid & radical mental health support, and co-author of Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness, Jacks has facilitated workshops, keynoted conferences, and performed poetry across North America and Europe. A painter and designer, their creations have been shown across the US and Canada. Jacks was a 2012 Lambda Literary Fellow and has authored five zines, most recently, So Many Ways to Be Beautiful. Their first book of poetry and painting, Inbetweenland, was released in 2013 by Deviant Type Press. Jacks’ life and art are the subject of the documentary film Crooked Beauty.

Reviews

[shimmerr · Rating 4 out of 5]

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the remyth country poem fills me with feelings