In not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them , Jenny Boully presents us with a "deliciously creepy" swan song from Wendy Darling to Peter Pan. As in her previous book [one love affair]* , Boully reads between the lines of a text -- in this case J. M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy -- and emerges with the darker underside, with those sinister or subversive places merely echoed or hinted at. Funny, sinister, and heartbreaking by turns, not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them explores, in dreamy and dark prose, how we love, how we pine away, and how we never stop loving and pining away. Her Neverland is bawdy, bursting, and beautiful. praise for not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them Peter Pan was a postmodern tour de force written at the height of Modernism -- and if the very best collections of literary art at least gesture toward their immediate influences, this is undoubtedly the contemporary re-treatment that Peter Pan deserves. Boully has captured the darkness of Barrie's text, and in elevating its inter- and sub-textualities to the level of discourse she illuminates and reinvigorates her source material without sacrificing any of its creepiness, wonder, or violence. Simultaneously metaphysical and visceral, these addresses from Wendy to Peter in lyric prose are scary, sexual, and intellectually disarming. -- Seth Abramson, Huffington Post Boully, both a poet and an essayist by experience, knows perfectly well how to weave together