Joy Is My Middle Name by Sasha Debevec-McKenney Ian Mcmillan like a painting"

like a painting"

Universal Jenny

Eliot Prize and Costa Award shortlisted poet Helen MortLet me kneelbefore the sky and let me be humble

showing the spirit surviving amongst the tatters of Christianity in a modern wilderness

"Maria Borio’s poems hunt the pervious instants when one fragile human gaze—across horizon lines

Joy Is My Middle Name by Sasha Debevec-McKenney Ian Mcmillan like a painting"Joy 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.