The List of Last Tries

by Jessica L. Walsh

“Jessica Walsh’s The List of Last Tries is a miracle of focus, a sustained gothic nursery rhyme that describes a girl’s coming of age and coming into power, for which she is shunned and exiled as freak, witch, and murderer. This collection is a captivating female picaresque, each poem taking a step deeper into marginality’s fierce power.” — Diane Seuss, Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl, Four- Legged Girl, Pulitzer Prize Finalist

(from Amazon listing)

51 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2019

About the author

Jessica L. Walsh is a poet and professor at Harper College in suburban Chicago, where she lives with her husband and daughter. She is the author of two chapbooks, Knocked Around and The Division of Standards. Her work has appeared in Crab Creek Review, Midwestern Gothic, Ninth Letter, and more. How to Break My Neck is her first full-length collection.