Cut Side Down

Jessi MacEachern

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Invisible Publishing
16 July 2025

Poetry

Cut Side Down feasts on books. Diving face-first into the bookcase, MacEachern calls up the pleasure and pain of influence in sumptuous, body-and-mind-bending poems. Here Virginia Woolf, Orlando, and companions attend salons hosted by Clark Coolidge and Renee Gladman, while Lorine Niedecker scolds Charles Olson in class. There are glimpses of the poet too-a lost boy in rural Prince Edward Island, a young woman in Montreal-as she concocts worlds and words. Immersed in a life of reading, and spying through the keyholes of fantasy,Cut Side Downmelds lyric and conceptual experiment in a delightful banquet of autobiography, desire, invention, landscape and memory.

By: Jessi MacEachern
Imprint: Invisible Publishing
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm,
ISBN: 9781778430596
ISBN 10: 1778430597
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 16 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Jessi MacEachern, born in Epekwitk/Prince Edward Island, currently lives in Tiohti:ke/Montreal, where she teaches English literature. As a poet, professor, and scholar of contemporary feminist poetics, her critical and creative writing has appeared in journals and anthologies across Canada and around the world. Her debut poetry collectionA Number of Stunning Attackswas published by Invisible Publishing in 2021.

Reviews for Cut Side Down

Praise for A Number of Stunning Attacks: “MacEachern taps into what poetry does best, which is to bypass logical explanations and dive into an emotional core that here sings of strength above all.”—Quill & Quire, starred review