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Subject(s)

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

Related work(s)

Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, [Browse]

Series

• American poets continuum series no. 147. [More in this 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.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• For our grandmothers
• Fuck
• Your monthly
• Fanny says she and her husband had their first fight
• Fanny linguistics: malapropisms
• Fanny says she spent it
• Pepsi
• Fanny says sometimes it's worth the whupping
• Go put on your face
• For my grandmother's teeth, pulled when she was thirty-six
• Fanny says she got saved
• Fanny linguistics: Nickole
• Fanny says how to make potato salad
• Fanny linguistics: birdsong
• Fanny says she learned to throw the first stone
• Hettie
• Fanny says how to be a lady
• Clorox
• Fanny says she didn't use to be afraid
• Fanny linguistics: publix hieroglyphics
• Fanny linguistics: origins
• Crisco
• For my grandmother's feet, swollen again
• Fanny says how to tend babies
• Fanny says she wanted to see Elvis
• EPO
• Fanny says at twenty-three she learned to drive
• Dixie highway
• Fanny linguistics: how to say what you mean
• Pheno
• Fanny says she made him feel better
• How to dress like Fanny
• Fanny says I need to keep warm
• A genealogy of the word
• Fanny says she knows how little time is left
• For my grandmother's gallstones, reconsidered
• Sweet silver
• Fanny says she met a stripper girl in the ER
• Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit
• Fanny says again the same dream on morphine
• Flitter
• Fanny asks me a question before I'd even ask myself
• My book, in birds
• A translation for the spiritual mediator who may speak for me to Frances Lee Cox, wherever she may be
• To my grandmother's ghost, flying with me on a plane
• Fanny linguistics: thaumatology
• The family celebrates independence
• An invitation for my grandmother
• A prayer for the self-made man
• For my grandmother's perfume, Norell
• Fanny says goodbye.

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ISBN

• 9781938160578
• 1938160576

LCCN

^^2014039935

OCLC

892794822

RCP

H - S

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