big stories like [Big Tree]
The calligrapher grins with ink-stained teeth
narcissistic ex-boyfriend and alcoholic
From drudge work on a glamorous cruise liner
● 1900s Cornflake Macaroons
Joy Is My Middle Name: Poems Jenny Odell big stories like [Big Tree]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 McKenney's intimate,