A reflection on the declining quality of connections between the self and society in America, punctuated by dry Millennial humor.
Through inVISIBLE’s experimental blend of prose, poetry, and image, McPherson interrogates the body and its connections to modern science and folk medicine, birch trees and chronic wounds, Fight Club and microplastics. These connections make themselves known in the unlikeliest of places–pharmacies, doctor’s offices, movie theaters, and highway rest stops all become places of discovery.
“McPherson shares her experience of illness in terms of myths, environmental science, medical bureaucracy, gender complexity, and the quotidian bits of modern Western life—all with wit and an electric imagination.”
— Shannon O’Malley, Creative Writer, Director, and Strategist and co-creator of Gay Men Draw Vaginas
“At once reminiscent of Ginsburg and Lorde, McPherson dives into the wreck that is toxic capitalism with an eye toward hope, expansion, and triumph; her urgency is intoxicating. inVISIBLE’s harmonic language creates the space needed to engage finally with the often ignored yet poetic world of chronic illness—an illness of the body and of the culture.”
—Candice M. Kelsey, author, A Poet
LAURA MCPHERSON | WRITER | CREATIVE | WORDSMITH 