“This book is a spell. In Fairy of Disenchantment Sun Hesper Jansen weaves her pen like a needle through essays, poetry and prose poems, to stitch together the open wounds of invisible illness, tristesse and being human.”
—Amy Torok, co-author of Missing Witches and New Moon Magic
“Each poem and artwork in Sun Hesper Jansen’s erudite first book, Fairy of Disenchantment, is placed down like a tarot card. The readings, one moving smoothly into the next, tell the author something about herself but also about the rest of us. And you’ll wait eagerly, hungry for each new revelation.”
—Suzette Bishop, Jaguar’s Book of the Dead
”Sun Hesper Jansen’s speculative and compelling reflections on the journey and cycles within chronic illness are a masterful and luminous mix of mythology, witchcraft, nature, trauma, goddess magic, and the turning wheel of life and death, ‘from the crack of menarche to the crone.’”
—Beverley Butcher, Author of ‘Sisterhood of Broken Dolls’ included in the anthology Disturbing the Body, @boudiccapress, March2021
From Fairy of Disenchantment
“I curb that side of my nature that wants to embellish. Storytelling has made trouble for me all through my life. I’ve avoided it for at least a decade. Until now. There’s a creeping Lovecraftian novel unfolding in my brain: the unfathomable nightmare future state of Multiple Sclerosis. The therapist, if she’s any good, should know that I’m playing her like I play everyone. Like I use mirrors. All my answers end with questions that shift the focus to the asker.” (Disenchantment: A Prelude)
“You never forget the first time
you see the inside
of your own head.
Nor your passion for the first
radiologist who paints you
beautifully
in the language of science.” (Gradient Weighted Echoes)
“I grit my teeth again, in a lupine smile,
like all wild things once thought beaten,
returning time and again, to diminish you.” (Sisyphe Aux Dents De Loup)
Sun Hesper Jansen is a poet and writer of dark romantic fantasy who lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
Her work has appeared in the Indie Blu(e) anthologies But You Don’t Look Sick: The Real Life Adventures of Fibro Bitches, Lupus Warriors, and Other Superheroes Battling Invisible Illness and As the World Burns: Writers and Artists Reflect on a World Gone Mad.
Her stories and poems have also appeared in The Chamber Magazine and Gobblers/Masticadores.
You can find her on Instagram @sunhesper, and on her blog, Fairy of Disenchantment, where she writes on/as literary therapy for Multiple Sclerosis.
How to Purchase Fairy of Disenchantment
Fairy of Disenchantment is available for wholesale purchase through the Ingram Group. Fairy of Disenchantment is also available for retail purchase through Amazon (print & Kindle editions), Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, Books-a-Million, and other major online book retailers.
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-951724-21-4 eBook ISBN: 978-1-951724-22-1
Keywords: poetry; original artwork; Multiple Sclerosis; Wicca; Nature; Family; invisible illness
CONTACT Christine E. Ray, Editor-in-Chief, indieblucollective@gmail.com
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