Joy Is My Middle Name by Sasha Debevec-McKenney

Joy Is My Middle Name by Sasha Debevec-McKenneyJoy Is My Middle Name documents crawling through your twenties and emerging into your thirties. Walking uneasy 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 conversational ease. Humble, giddy, bold, empathetic, subversive, hilarious, lithe the collection feels like a conversation with your greatest friend, over the best dinner. Full

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