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In Just Another Jack: The Private Lives of Nursery Rhymes, poet and novelist Michele Herman explores a variety of timeless human predicaments - adolescent lust, overprotective parents, dementia, gender confusion and more - by imagining her way into the actual lives of eight familiar nursery-rhyme characters. Many authors have taken fictional or mythological characters and brought them into our contemporary world, but these eight story-poems accomplish something more unusual by roaming around in Mr. and Mrs. Sprat's house to find out what ails them, following little Bo Beep out to the Welsh pasture to learn how she lost track of her sheep, conjuring up a twin brother for Little Miss Muffet, and much more.
About the author
Michele Herman is author of the novel Save the Village (Regal House Publishing, 2022) and the poetry chapbook Victory Boulevard (Finishing Line Press, 2018). Her poems, stories and essays have appeared widely in publications including The Sun, Ploughshares, The Hudson Review and The New York Times. The recipient of several writing awards, she teaches fiction, poetry and memoir at The Writers Studio, works as a developmental editor and writing coach, writes columns for The Village Sun, translates French songs, and occasionally performs her own work in cabaret and theatrical settings.
