Double Jinx follows the multiple transformations both figurative and literal that accompany adolescence and adulthood, particularly for young women. Drawing inspiration from sources as varied as Ovids Metamorphoses, the rewritten fairy tales in Anne Sextons Transformations, and the wild and shifting dreamscapes of Brigit Pegeen Kellys work, these poems track speakers attempting to construct identity. A series of poems depict the character of Nancy Drew as she delves into an obsession with a doppelgänger. Cinderella wakes up to a pumpkin and a tattered dress after her prince grows tired of her. A young girl obsessed with fairy tales becomes fascinated with a copy of Greys Anatomy in which she finds a pink girl pinned to the page as if in vivisection.
