Fanny Says
Nonfiction, Family & Relationships, Relationships, Grandparenting, Fiction & Literature, Poetry, American
| Author: | Nickole Brown | ISBN: | 9781938160585 |
| Publisher: | BOA Editions Ltd. | Publication: | April 20, 2015 |
| Imprint: | BOA Editions Ltd. | Language: | English |
| Author: | Nickole Brown |
| ISBN: | 9781938160585 |
| Publisher: | BOA Editions Ltd. |
| Publication: | April 20, 2015 |
| Imprint: | BOA Editions Ltd. |
| Language: | English |
Brown's debut collection, Sister, was published in 2007 and sold over 3,000 copies. It ranked #16 on the Poetry Foundation’s Contemporary Best Sellers List a year after its pub date.
This book is a biography of Frances Lee Cox, Brown’s sassy-mouthed grandmother from Western Kentucky. There are more f-bombs than you’d ever expect, so don’t think of this as your typical granny rocking in a chair. Think of Auntie Mame meets Winter's Bone, or a character that looks a lot like Eva Gabor in Green Acres, but splashed with a shadow of Slyvia Plath.
A cross-genre collection that reads like a novel, this hilarious and often wrenching book is both a collection of oral history pieces and poems that deal with the complexities of the South, including poverty, racism, and domestic violence.
The book carries years of transcriptions of Fanny. The Kentucky Foundation for Women flew Brown to Florida to be with Fanny before her passing, and she recorded their talking for days.
This collection has already received attention: poems have won the Orlando Poetry Prize; poems been published on two broadsides and appeared in the Academy’s Poem-A-Day Project; Interviews about this book have appeared in storySouth, Iron Horse, and NPR’s WordTemple.
Brown's debut collection, Sister, was published in 2007 and sold over 3,000 copies. It ranked #16 on the Poetry Foundation’s Contemporary Best Sellers List a year after its pub date.
This book is a biography of Frances Lee Cox, Brown’s sassy-mouthed grandmother from Western Kentucky. There are more f-bombs than you’d ever expect, so don’t think of this as your typical granny rocking in a chair. Think of Auntie Mame meets Winter's Bone, or a character that looks a lot like Eva Gabor in Green Acres, but splashed with a shadow of Slyvia Plath.
A cross-genre collection that reads like a novel, this hilarious and often wrenching book is both a collection of oral history pieces and poems that deal with the complexities of the South, including poverty, racism, and domestic violence.
The book carries years of transcriptions of Fanny. The Kentucky Foundation for Women flew Brown to Florida to be with Fanny before her passing, and she recorded their talking for days.
This collection has already received attention: poems have won the Orlando Poetry Prize; poems been published on two broadsides and appeared in the Academy’s Poem-A-Day Project; Interviews about this book have appeared in storySouth, Iron Horse, and NPR’s WordTemple.
