:ab ovo:

"In :AB OVO:, a momentous life-change is chronicled, is found new language for. Jenn McCreary's re-starting point is where begins the divide of cell from cell, word from experience, individual from family (and family from individual). Her questioning of a lifetime of a priori givens takes over language, inviting it to accommodate her unacknowledged world. Her expansive collection is 'almost like the ocean. it's nothing like the ocean' in its mystery and precision. You will step off the edge of :AB OVO: and find yourself held by air" -- Marcella Durand.

About the author: Jenn McCreary is the author of two chapbooks: ERRATA STIGMATA (Potes & Poets Press), and four o'clock pocket chiming (Beautiful Swimmer Press); and of a doctrine of signatures (Singing Horse Press). She lives in Philadelphia with her family, where she co-edits ixnay press with Chris McCreary.