Drive Here and Devastate Me

by Megan Falley

Overview

Drive Here and Devastate Me  is  a powerful and honest exploration of love, queerness, and the triumph over shame. Falley's words shock you with their raw honesty, whether delivered with sharp wit or detailed imagery. 
It is evident that the author is not only madly in love with her partner, whom she writes both idiosyncratic and sultry poems for, but also with the very essence of language and the power of dismantling shame. 
These poems fearlessly tackle pressing issues like gun violence, toxic masculinity, LGBTQ* struggles, and the oppression of women's bodies. Megan Falley's much-anticipated fourth collection of poetry, confronts the complexities of life with unapologetic courage.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781938912863
Publisher:	Write Bloody Publishing
Publication date:	11/26/2018
Edition description:	First edition
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Megan Falley is the queer-femme author of three full-length collections of poetry: Drive Here and Devastate Me (Write Bloody Publishing 2018), Redhead and the Slaughter King (2014), and After the Witch Hunt (2012). Her chapbook, Bad Girls, Honey [Poems About Lana Del Rey] was the winner of the 2015 Tired Hearts Chapbook Prize. She is a National Poetry Slam & Woman of the World Poetry Slam finalist. She is co-author of a non-fiction book with poet Andrea Gibson, How Poetry Can Change Your Heart.

Table of Contents

I Grief Cartographer

If You Really Want to Ruin Me 15

Apartment Sweet Apartment 17

When It Ended 18

Home Video 20

Going to the Basement 22

Ode to Eleanor 23

II Bullet in Reverse

Tokophobia 29

Afterschool Special 30

Milk 31

Coming Out (and Being Pushed Back In) 33

Pulse 36

Green Acres Is the Place to Be 38

Why So Many Penises (or Should I Say, "Pee-Ni")? 40

Said the Gun to the Woman on Her Way to Planned Parenthood 42

Mirror, Mirror 43

The Theory of Evolution 45

The Man Interrupts What I'm Saying About Sexism to Explain It to Me 48

Other Woman Rationalization 50

Kiss Number Thirty-Nine or So 51

If You Stayed 52

Movement 53

Unconditional 54

Ode to Red Lipstick 56

III Before-After Girls

Eulogy for the Family Pig 61

The Weight 63

Ode to Beauty 65

Frankie Lane's Tae Bo Class Has Sent More Kids to the Infirmary Than Lice 67

On Being One of the Skinny Girls at Fat Camp 68

IV What Makes the Bathwater Blush

Fever Slow 72

Waiting to Kiss 74

What If Dreams Could Get Leaked Like Celebrity Sex Tapes? 75

Your Bathwater > Wine 77

Pancake 79

Too Long for a Postcard 80

Forever Home Aubade 82

Ode to Our Age Difference 84

My One Millionth Love Poem for You 85

The Light at the End of the Tunnel Is Green 86

Window 88

V One Unbreakable Bean

A Student Asks Me How to Make It as a Writer and I Remind Myself 93

Self-Portrait as Someone to Love 96

Holy Thank You for Not 98

Acknowledgments 103

About the Author 105

Editorial Reviews

"Megan Falley’s fourth collection of poetry is a love letter to the queer community. Though it includes more than a handful of personal love poems and breakup poems, the jam-packed volume...wrestles with subjects close to our collective heart: love and heartbreak, yes, but also shame, mental health, fear, femme invisibility, gun violence, body positivity, toxic masculinity, and self love...Falley puts words to the feelings that haunt us at dusk and delight us at dawn." – Autostraddle  

"Falley is electric. Unapologetic...her spoken-word poetry is heart-pounding advice for anyone looking to live an unabashed, unashamed, unrepentant life... Falley has turned her personal experiences into public prose, exposing her queerness and the raw chasm between self-confidence and self-doubt. She’s dissected moments in her own life that’ve helped her and her listeners comprehend a woman’s existence on Earth." – Boulder Weekly

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