WHO'S GOING TO LOVE THE DYING GIRL?
Who’s Going to Love the Dying Girl vibrates with anger, confusion, honesty, and anguish as an adult suffering from Cystic Fibrosis navigates love and loss in her failing body.
With a voice unwavering in its honesty, a reckless past and a foreshortened future collide in these poems. The conversational narratives grapple with relationships, loss, and chronic illness woven together with threads of music and pop culture references that make them relatable. Their vulnerability is tinged with a dry and introspective wit that cuts to the bone of the speaker’s darkest fears.
These poems confront the title question thrown at her one terrible night: who will love the dying girl?
Poetry/ 978-1-950730-77-3/ September 30, 2021
Who’s Going to Love the Dying Girl vibrates with anger, confusion, honesty, and anguish as an adult suffering from Cystic Fibrosis navigates love and loss in her failing body.
With a voice unwavering in its honesty, a reckless past and a foreshortened future collide in these poems. The conversational narratives grapple with relationships, loss, and chronic illness woven together with threads of music and pop culture references that make them relatable. Their vulnerability is tinged with a dry and introspective wit that cuts to the bone of the speaker’s darkest fears.
These poems confront the title question thrown at her one terrible night: who will love the dying girl?
Poetry/ 978-1-950730-77-3/ September 30, 2021
Who’s Going to Love the Dying Girl vibrates with anger, confusion, honesty, and anguish as an adult suffering from Cystic Fibrosis navigates love and loss in her failing body.
With a voice unwavering in its honesty, a reckless past and a foreshortened future collide in these poems. The conversational narratives grapple with relationships, loss, and chronic illness woven together with threads of music and pop culture references that make them relatable. Their vulnerability is tinged with a dry and introspective wit that cuts to the bone of the speaker’s darkest fears.
These poems confront the title question thrown at her one terrible night: who will love the dying girl?
Poetry/ 978-1-950730-77-3/ September 30, 2021