The poems in Let's All Die Happy explore apostasy, concerned with what happens after the beliefs and institutions which promised fulfillment leave us empty instead. Through a darkly humorous lens, it also examines a patriarchal culture in which women are defined through their relationship to others and how this inheritance weighs heavily not only on the lives we lead but shapes what life it is possible to even imagine having. Ultimately, the poems push against these containers, burning through the stages of a woman's life until there's nothing left but to invent what's next, finding both loneliness and liberation in this reclamation.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 11/24/2017
ISBN: 9780822965145
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.90w x 0.40d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 11/06/2017