Many-layered, like an artist’s canvas painted over again and again, Annunciations provokes a sense of wonder and deep mystery, no matter how many times it is read.
Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, author of Mud in Our Mouths
Annunciations investigates and then transfigures the violence women face when agency is denied or stolen from them. Shutt’s tightly woven chapbook provides a simultaneously meditative and delightfully loud space, placing the reader in a position of viewer, consumer, and then transmuter of the power dynamics imposed on the female figure—a much-needed reclamation of the narrative around the Annunciation and is a delight to read from start to finish.
Katie Richards, author of Apple Mind
In this astounding book, the reader is led into and out of scenes that consider art, power, gender dynamics and how expectation can be upended. The female figures are aware of how they are needed — and used — and what they must do to reclaim agency. Art, faith, behavior codified as “right” leaves the female figures looking for ways to subvert this dynamic in this wholly original work.
Elline Lipkin, author of Girl in a Forest
Title: Annunciations
Author: Buffy Shutt
Publisher: Rockwood Press
Released: 2026 - September
Format: chapbook, acid-free paper, silk cover
Pages: 38
Price: $10
ISBN: 978-1-59498-240-8
Many-layered, like an artist’s canvas painted over again and again, Annunciations provokes a sense of wonder and deep mystery, no matter how many times it is read.
Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, author of Mud in Our Mouths
Annunciations investigates and then transfigures the violence women face when agency is denied or stolen from them. Shutt’s tightly woven chapbook provides a simultaneously meditative and delightfully loud space, placing the reader in a position of viewer, consumer, and then transmuter of the power dynamics imposed on the female figure—a much-needed reclamation of the narrative around the Annunciation and is a delight to read from start to finish.
Katie Richards, author of Apple Mind
In this astounding book, the reader is led into and out of scenes that consider art, power, gender dynamics and how expectation can be upended. The female figures are aware of how they are needed — and used — and what they must do to reclaim agency. Art, faith, behavior codified as “right” leaves the female figures looking for ways to subvert this dynamic in this wholly original work.
Elline Lipkin, author of Girl in a Forest
Title: Annunciations
Author: Buffy Shutt
Publisher: Rockwood Press
Released: 2026 - September
Format: chapbook, acid-free paper, silk cover
Pages: 38
Price: $10
ISBN: 978-1-59498-240-8
