Joy Is My Middle Name by Sasha Debevec-McKenney Anna Gurton-Wachter which re-imagines family trauma through

which re-imagines family trauma through the prism of classic American cinema

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Joy Is My Middle Name by Sasha Debevec-McKenney Anna Gurton-Wachter which re-imagines family trauma throughJoy 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.