Sleeping with Demons

Sleeping with Demons includes poems that examine the intersection of mental health and feminism using different poetic lenses, personas, forms, and styles. Through an exploration of loss, betrayal, violence, and the generational transmission of dysfunction, McCormick offers a voice to the emotional and physical encounters of one version of the feminine experience.

"Kaecey McCormick‘s poems explore the shadows of women’s lives with graceful precision. Like the speaker in “I am the River Bark,” she peels away the layers of our shared culture, revealing and then examining the underlying assumptions that drive our notions of gender, violence, illness, and injustice. Each poem in this brave new collection blends memory and imagination in ways that surprise and reward the reader with the kind of truth that can only be achieved through the careful crafting of language."

–David Denny, author of Some Divine Commotion and Fool in the Attic.

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