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Fanny says : poems / by Nickole Brown.

by Brown, Nickole.

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Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, Ltd., 2015.

American poetry -- 21st century.

Grandmothers -- Poetry.

9781938160578 (pbk.) :

1938160576 (pbk.)

American poets continuum series ; v. 147.

148 pages ; 23 cm.

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.

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