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Cottonwood Shopping Center
7960 Niwot Road
Suite B-3
Niwot, CO 80503
(720) 412-1548

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Author Alysse Kathleen McCanna

FishWife

Linguistically acrobatic, FishWife interrogates dictionary definitions and the messy function of memory, reclaiming and redefining language to discover the self. This collection explores where and how embodiments of wifehood and identity overlap and entwine, alchemizing intuition into language and offering poetry as a mode of illumination.

Traveling from sea to sky to earth, the speaker crosses literal and figurative borders of state lines and memory, challenging lexicography in a strange, liminal space of ghosts and grief.

About the Author

Alysse Kathleen McCanna is the author of FishWife (Black Lawrence Press), winner of the 2025 Colorado Book Award. Her poetry has appeared in North American Review, The Rumpus, Poet Lore, TriQuarterly, and other journals. She holds a PhD in English from Oklahoma State

University, an MFA from Bennington College, and is an Associate Professor of English at Colorado Mountain College in the Vail Valley. Her current project, begun at the Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico, follows three dead beloveds on a journey through the underworld, in blank verse.

Inkberry Books offers a wide variety of new and gently used books. We are happy to order new books, and the selection of books on our $1.00 sale cart outside changes every day.

Euros are as good as cash at Inkberry Books. If you happen to have a pocketful of Euro leftover from a visit to Europe or maybe a canceled trip, you can now spend it at Inkberry Books in Niwot. The store will accept your Euro for purchases at the current exchange rate.

Inkberry Books

7960 Niwot Road, Niwot
United States