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When
You Say One Thing But Mean Your Mother Poems by Melissa
Broder
Who’s the queen of kundalini bloopers, Emily
Dickinson’s attitude problem (that bitch) and
California dreams? It’s Melissa Broder, who will
charm your pants off and then show you a little
tough love in this vivid, witty first collection of
poems: WHEN YOU SAY ONE THING BUT MEAN YOUR MOTHER!
Each poem is artisan-crafted in controlled couplets,
weighty triplets, tight syllabics and assonance that
will take the top of your head off. But you won’t
have the time to absorb the academic monkeyshine—so
absorbed you’ll be on the flip side of Bat Mitzvah
stress-syndrome, Aunt Sheila’s in Taos, vampires in
absentia, and brand names, brand names, brand names.
From junkie fetishism to a housewife with a special
“thing” for laundry, Broder does dark with magnetic
charisma and enchanting humor.
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2010. To meet the rest of the
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About
the Author - Melissa Broder
is the curator of the Polestar Poetry
Series and the Chief Editor of La Petite
Zine. She is the winner of the Jerome
Lowell Dejur Award and the Stark Prize
for Poetry. Broder received her BA from
Tufts University and is currently in the
MFA program at the CCNY. By day, she
works as a literary publicist. Her poems
have appeared in many journals,
including: Opium, Shampoo, Conte and The
Del Sol Review. She lives in Brooklyn.
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When
You Say One Thing But Mean Your Mother
About
the Author - Melissa Broder
