“In The Witch’s Index Megan Gannon reminds us how a poem, whatever its subject, is ultimately a kind of incantation. Original in intent, often startling in execution, through all their inventive twists and turns of thought and feeling, her poems never forget their loyalty to language itself, its magic-anchored possibilities. At once considered and spontaneous, able to fill restricted forms with unexpected feelings and achieve effects at once literary and personal, her imagination remains alive to those edges of being where reason and non-reason play together. As a poet who ‘swallows the world’ while acknowledging the vulnerable nature of flesh and blood, she achieves—in a manner both lyrical and tough-minded—her own ‘kind of grace.'”
– Eamon Grennan, author of Out of Sight: New and Selected Poems
“Spells and incantations were never so personal and so deftly woven from voices and images as in the poems of Megan Gannon. They bring out the secrets hidden in ordinary speech, which cease to be ordinary when the poet opens the door for us to hear them.”
- Nancy Willard, author of The Sea at Truro
Sweet Publications, 2012
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