MARIAN PRAYERS (paperback)

Greer McAllister holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and is a poetry editor at Variant Literature. She has recently been published in HAD, Fugue, and Pidgeonholes. She lives in Brooklyn and tweets @mcallistergreer.

"At once mystical and profound, Greer McAllister tackles the spirit of nature and the nature of humanity with ‘Marian Prayers.’ Set in a scene which shifts in tone between deep rust brown and glowing gold, McAllister luxuriates in a landscape built for the admiration of women. Whether attracted into the universe of ‘Marian Prayers’ by fame or fate, the presence of women in the chapbook creates a stunning and sensory—yet also frank and vulnerable—ode to the feminine. But this vulnerability also sheds a light on the underbelly of existing in a feminine body and all it entails—the whole 'gorgeous, violent dream' of it all." 

— nat raum, author of “the abyss is staring back,” “you stupid slut,” and “specter dust”