Details

Subject(s)

• American poetry—21st century [Browse]
• Grandmothers—Poetry [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Series

American poets continuum series ; no. 147. [More in this series]

Summary note

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, this book 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.

ISBN

• 9781938160578
• 1938160576

LCCN

2014039935

OCLC

892794822

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