Fanny says
Subtitle: poems
By: by Nickole Brown
Edition: First edition.
Series: American poets continuum series -- no. 147; American poets continuum series -- no. 147.
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9781938160578
Subjects: American poetry; Grandmothers; Poetry
Work titles: Poems
Description: 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.