Results for "Melnick, Lynn"

"An ode to storytelling itself . . . A gorgeous and heart-rending story of survival."--Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood A moving and essential exploration of what it takes to find your voice as a woman, a survivor, an artist, and an icon. The first time Lynn Melnick listened to a Dolly Parton song ... Read More about I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton

The poems in Landscape with Sex and Violence explore what it means to exist within a rape culture so entrenched that it can't be separated from the physical landscapes in which it enacts itself. Lyrically complex and startling-yet forthright and unflinching- these poems address rape, abortion, sex w... Read More about Landscape with Sex and Violence

A moving and essential exploration of what it takes to find your voice as a woman, a survivor, an artist, and an icon.   The first time Lynn Melnick listened to a Dolly Parton song in full, she was 14 years old, in the triage room of a Los Angeles hospital, waiting to be admitted to a drug reha... Read More about I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton (American Music Series)

One hundred poems. One hundred voices. One hundred different points of view. Here is a cross-section of American poetry as it is right now—full of grit and love, sparkling with humor, searing the heart, smashing through boundaries on every page. Please Excuse This Poem features one hundred accl... Read More about Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation

Poetry. The title of Melnick's stunning book is a microcosm of the poems within--the uncertainty of 'if I should say' followed by the defiance of 'I have hope.' Her poems follow moments of unmooredness ('I am best / when I dabble in consciousness and a soundly / spinning room') with blinding insight... Read More about If I Should Say I Have Hope