Joy Is My Middle Name by Sasha Debevec-McKenney Ian Mcmillan Sandra McPherson

Sandra McPherson

tries the bounds of comprehension as its cast of bots and satellites come to terms with their brave new world

showing the spirit surviving amongst the tatters of Christianity in a modern wilderness

Universal Jenny

Joy Is My Middle Name by Sasha Debevec-McKenney Ian Mcmillan Sandra McPhersonJoy Is My Middle Name documents crawling through your twenties and emerging into your thirties. Walking uneasy cities and rural towns, talking about sex, race, womanhood, addiction, sobriety, consumerism and pop culture, these poems pull at the edges of the performed self with conversational ease. Humble, giddy, bold, empathetic, subversive, hilarious, lithe "the collection feels like a conversation with your greatest friend, over the best dinner.