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9781938160578 English 1938160576 An "unleashed love song" to her late grandmother, Nickole Brown's collection brings her brassy, bawdy, tough-as-new-rope grandmother to life. With hair teased to Jesus, mile-long false eyelashes, and a white Cadillac Eldorado with atomic-red leather seats, Fanny is not your typical granny rocking in a chair. Instead, think of a character that looks a lot like Eva Gabor in Green Acres, but darkened with a shadow of Flannery O'Connor. A cross-genre collection that reads like a novel, thisbook is both a collection of oral history and a lyrical and moving biography that wrestles with the complexities of the South, including poverty, racism, and domestic violence.Nickole Brown's unleashed love song to her grandmother is raucous and heart-rending, reflective and slap-yo-damn-knee hilarious, a heady meld of lyrical line and life lesson. Brown is blessed to be blood-linked to such a shrewd and singular soul, and the poet's mix of monologue, myth, and unbridled mayhem paints a picture of a proper Southern lady who is just-well, unforgettable." - Patricia Smith "In Fanny Says, Nickole Brown distills the whole of America into one woman: bawdy, loving, racist, battered, healed, and gorgeous with determination. Our country has no history that does not touch the South. Our divisions are our unions. Here, Brown unleashes a voice returned to teach us a lesson. Reader, fair warning: you can't hide from Fanny. You will be changed by this book." - Rebecca Gayle Howell ", In this "unleashed love song" to her late grandmother, Nickole Brown brings her brassy, bawdy, tough-as-new-rope grandmother to life. With hair teased to Jesus, glued-on false eyelashes, and a white Cadillac Eldorado with atomic-red leather seats, Fanny isn't your typical granny in a rocking chair. Instead, think of a character that looks a lot like Eva Gabor in Green Acres, but tinted with a shadow of Sylvia Plath. From "Go Put on Your Face": is what she said, and what she meant was a little somethin-somethin, a little dunka-dunk a little mascara and blush, gloss and perfume, and best conceal that stork bite , that hot V that flared between my brows, that red check pointing down to my pink gum-flavored gum, chewed and blown and popped with a flirt, me pulling it to string and twirling it with the tip, just like a dumb blonde should. A cross-genre collection that reads like a novel, this hilarious and often wrenching book is both a collection of oral history pieces and poems that deal with the complexities of the South, including poverty, racism, and domestic violence. Nickole Brown grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, and Deerfield Beach, Florida. She got her MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, studied literature at Oxford University, and was editorial assistant for the late Hunter S. Thompson. Her first collection, Sister , was published in 2007. She is editor for the Marie Alexander Series in Prose Poetry at White Pine Press and teaches at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock.
9781938160578 English 1938160576 An "unleashed love song" to her late grandmother, Nickole Brown's collection brings her brassy, bawdy, tough-as-new-rope grandmother to life. With hair teased to Jesus, mile-long false eyelashes, and a white Cadillac Eldorado with atomic-red leather seats, Fanny is not your typical granny rocking in a chair. Instead, think of a character that looks a lot like Eva Gabor in Green Acres, but darkened with a shadow of Flannery O'Connor. A cross-genre collection that reads like a novel, thisbook is both a collection of oral history and a lyrical and moving biography that wrestles with the complexities of the South, including poverty, racism, and domestic violence.Nickole Brown's unleashed love song to her grandmother is raucous and heart-rending, reflective and slap-yo-damn-knee hilarious, a heady meld of lyrical line and life lesson. Brown is blessed to be blood-linked to such a shrewd and singular soul, and the poet's mix of monologue, myth, and unbridled mayhem paints a picture of a proper Southern lady who is just-well, unforgettable." - Patricia Smith "In Fanny Says, Nickole Brown distills the whole of America into one woman: bawdy, loving, racist, battered, healed, and gorgeous with determination. Our country has no history that does not touch the South. Our divisions are our unions. Here, Brown unleashes a voice returned to teach us a lesson. Reader, fair warning: you can't hide from Fanny. You will be changed by this book." - Rebecca Gayle Howell ", In this "unleashed love song" to her late grandmother, Nickole Brown brings her brassy, bawdy, tough-as-new-rope grandmother to life. With hair teased to Jesus, glued-on false eyelashes, and a white Cadillac Eldorado with atomic-red leather seats, Fanny isn't your typical granny in a rocking chair. Instead, think of a character that looks a lot like Eva Gabor in Green Acres, but tinted with a shadow of Sylvia Plath. From "Go Put on Your Face": is what she said, and what she meant was a little somethin-somethin, a little dunka-dunk a little mascara and blush, gloss and perfume, and best conceal that stork bite , that hot V that flared between my brows, that red check pointing down to my pink gum-flavored gum, chewed and blown and popped with a flirt, me pulling it to string and twirling it with the tip, just like a dumb blonde should. A cross-genre collection that reads like a novel, this hilarious and often wrenching book is both a collection of oral history pieces and poems that deal with the complexities of the South, including poverty, racism, and domestic violence. Nickole Brown grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, and Deerfield Beach, Florida. She got her MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, studied literature at Oxford University, and was editorial assistant for the late Hunter S. Thompson. Her first collection, Sister , was published in 2007. She is editor for the Marie Alexander Series in Prose Poetry at White Pine Press and teaches at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock.