Author: Jennifer Williams

About: Using language from automatized customer service as an entry point, If You Are Unable to Help Just Say So blends poetry and memoir to explore the futile attempt to find answers in the face of a parent’s struggle with addiction. An inner monologue, wrought with anxious attachment, questions the stability and meaning of every new piece of information and struggles to make a coherent narrative out of an increasingly absurd and bureaucratic environment. What symbols make it into our personal stories? What moments take significance? Who or what can be counted on when you’ve been conditioned to expect volatility?

Page Count: 72

Size: 4.25x6”

Printing: Risograph. Risolve Studio. Lincoln University, PA

Binding: Perfect. Your Bindery. Denver, Colorado.

Paper: Mohawk Via Vellum and French Glo-Tone

Edition: 200

Release: Fall 2017

Catalog: AP017