Nickole Brown

Fanny Says

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Produktbeschreibung

A raucous, bawdy, and hilarious investigation of the South through the unforgettable voice of Fanny, Nickole Brown’s fierce, tough-as-new-rope grandmother.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: BOA Editions
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 175mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9781938160578
• ISBN-10: 1938160576
• Artikelnr.: 41621297

Autorenporträt

Nickole Brown¿s books include: Fanny Says (BOA, 2015), a biography-in-poems about her late grandmother; Sister (Red Hen Press, 2007), a novel-in-stories; and an anthology, Air Fare (Sarabande, 2004), co-edited with Judith Taylor. For ten years, Brown was director of marketing and development at Sarabande Books, and was also the editorial assistant to the late Hunter S. Thompson. Currently she is the editor for the Marie Alexander Series in Prose Poetry at White Pine Press, and is on faculty every summer at the Sewanee Young Writer¿s Conference and at the low-residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Murray State. For more information about Nickole Brown, visit nickolebrown.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
For Our Grandmothers
I
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: Superstition
The Dead
Fanny Linguistics: Birdsong
Fanny Says She Learned to Throw the First Stone
Hettie
Fanny Says How to Be a Lady
II
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
III
A Genealogy of The Word
IV
Fanny Says She Knows How Little Time is Left
For My Grandmother's Gallstones, Reconsidered
Sweet Silver
Fanny Says She Meets a Stripper 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 Says It Celebrates Independence
An Invitation for My Grandmother
A Prayer for the Self-Made Man
For My Grandmother's Perfume, Norell
Fanny Says Goodbye
Afterword