Drawing together Jennifer A. McGowan''s poetry of myth and folktale, and the frailties - human or otherwise - behind them, With Paper for Feet explores, mostly from a female perspective, the guts it takes to live or - often - die, un-heroically. Her characters laugh, argue, complain, suffer,curse....Gold is heavy,and chafes....aware that more is expected of them, but unwilling to play up.Praise for Jennifer A. McGowan''s work...gritty thought; wit; striking candour - an unafraid recognitionof life''s richness and desolation; memorable detail; all these areunderpinned by a graceful, subtle, quite lovely way with language.Kevin Crossley-Holland...bedecked with wit, irony, bittersweet folly and dictional-shiftsjazzy enough to make a reader dance. Gray Jacobik... precise, observant and deep into mythology.Claribel Alegría