A Juror Must Fold in on Herself is a tribute to the staying power of fine literary presses, which Rattle most certainly is; and how important such chapbook releases are, not only to the individual poet's career (McClung is a 2020 winner of Rattle's Chapbook Prize), but proudly have taken the torch from an era when the country was alive with theatre and poetry and protest. (I miss it, so much.) Plus, such chapbooks, like the rejuvenation of novellas in the last few decades, are a tonic for the short-attention-span era we live in, bombarded daily with achy-breaky news -- most of which, we discover, is drivel.
Good stuff here.
You can hear McClung read two of her poems from the collection - "The Sequestered Juror Writes A Rondeau" and "The Public Defender First Approached the Box" - at the Rattle site. More information on the author can be gained by visiting her website: kathleenmcclung.com
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