Joy Is My Middle Name by Sasha Debevec-McKenney Ian Mcmillan monsters and the implacable enmity

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Joy Is My Middle Name by Sasha Debevec-McKenney Ian Mcmillan monsters and the implacable enmityJoy 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.