A Number of Stunning Attacks

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