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Good Grief by Stevie Edwards
Good Grief by Stevie Edwards
Winner of the 2013 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) Bronze Prize for Poetry and Devil's Kitchen Reading Award, Stevie Edwards' Good Grief has a rich belly rumbling with poems.
This collection catalogues their misadventures as a freshly-graduated Michigan transplant, stumbling over foal legs through Chicago and kneeling down to confront the wreckage of their skinned knees. Whether stopping to disinter a secondhand-clothes childhood, charting the reaches of their own privilege, or trying to recollect the reasoning behind last night's bar receipts, Stevie's voice is brilliantly distinctive.
Equal parts angst and grace, Good Grief will make you laugh, cry, shake your head, and nod with emotion.
When I was eight the doctor said the only way
to fix my pigeon-toes was to break my legs
and reset them straight. Dad said it’d be less
painful to just let me walk crooked. And so it is.
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Dr. Stevie Edwards is an Assistant Professor at Clemson University and Poetry Editor of The South Carolina Review. They are the author of Quiet Armor (Northwestern University Press, 2023), Sadness Workshop (Button Poetry, 2018), Humanly (Small Doggies Press, 2015), and Good Grief (Write Bloody Publishing, 2012).
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