Inbetweenland

Part love song, part howl, part incantation, Inbetweenland is the first book-length collection of Jacks McNamara s poems, prose, and hybrid experiments in the neon vernacular of being alive. Mapping out radical trajectories through loss, violence, and queer desire, McNamara creates a luminous archive of survival and resilience in a self-destructing world. A visual artist as well as a writer, the author relies heavily on the unexpected image to chronicle the impossible journey through body, family, and history towards home. From the borderlands of madness to the unpredictable shape of peace, Inbetweenland bears unflinching witness to a rarely charted geography, offering the reader a resonant poetics of insurrection and grace.

Jacks McNamara is a genderqueer writer, artist, activist, and healer based in Oakland, CA. Co-founder of The Icarus Project, an adventure in mutual aid and radical mental health support, and co-author of Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness, Jacks has facilitated workshops and performed poetry across North America and Europe. Jacks was a 2012 Lambda Literary Fellow.