On Sincerity and Being Poet Enough: An Interview with Jenny Boully

Jenny Boully’s essays are gifts of wonder and experimentation, graced with invention and serious play. In "not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them," Boully enacts a poetic and critical reimagination of J.M. Barrie’s Peter and Wendy, reading and writing between the lines, weaving together, as she describes it, “an alternative to the traditional academic essay on literary interpretation.”
The Body, an essay in footnotes, troubles and reroutes our instincts as readers for narrative and normative meaning-making. Boully’s most recent work, the collection
Betwixt and Between: Essays on the Writing Life, is a permission-giving work, a provocation for essayists examining their personal relationship with the form.   

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