Joy Is My Middle Name (eBook)

Poems

Sasha Debevec-McKenney (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
120 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-1-324-11068-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Hilarious, moving, and accessible, the poems in this extraordinary debut interrogate patriotism in a deeply flawed country.In her best imitation of a historian, poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney combs through the past. Joy Is My Middle Name is about crawling through your twenties and emerging into your thirties. Walking uneasily through cities and rural towns, talking about sex, race, womanhood, addiction, sobriety, consumerism, and pop culture, these poems pull at the edges of the performed self with ease.This remarkable debut collection showcases Debevec-McKenneys intimate, assured, conversational voice. Full of stories, character, awkward silences, and actual jokes, Joy Is My Middle Name seamlessly traces the authors search for herself and examines how she gets in her own way, brings humor and lightness to rock-bottom moments, and considers the shamelessly girly as a serious cultural artifact.All the while, Debevec-McKenney uses her own life to get revenge on the version of American history were taught in school. She brilliantly weaves together the political and the personal, maps the interior onto the exterior, and vice versa. Humble, giddy, ridiculous, bold, deep, empathetic, difficult, ragged, strange, erratic, and lithe, Joy Is My Middle Name is the most open conversation with your greatest friend, over the best dinner, the buzz of lifes perfectand not-so-perfectmoments funneled onto the page.My life changedwhen I found out what I could dowith my mouth. I lickedit all up, thirsty as any lifelong learner,any other lover of the last drop,swallowing everything butwhat I had to say.from WHEN I MET SHARON OLDS SHE TOLD ME TO WRITE A POEM ABOUT LBJS PENIS

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.8.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik
• Schlagworte: addiction • aging • Americana • american poet • Civil War • Connecticut • New York • Poem • Poetry • poetry collection • Racism • relationships • Stand Up Comedy • Trauma • Wisconsin • woman poet
• ISBN-10: 1-324-11068-6 / 1324110686
• ISBN-13: 978-1-324-11068-2 / 9781324110682