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The poems in this collection are about being alive and wanting to stay alive. They are poems teetering off a cliff. Poems created by the first and last feeling worth feeling. Poems about guns and sex and what follows both: daughters and husbands ducking from bullets. Leigh Chadwick weeps a collection that is both monstrous and intimate, terrifying and beautiful. With an eye for making the mundane extraordinary, Chadwick uses wit and charm to remind us that everything is bad, but we still have poetry. In this nightmare world, Your Favorite Poet is a dream.

“Leigh Chadwick is an absurdist with a heart of gold, funny and strange on the page and always precisely herself, no matter the persona she’s taking on—including that of Your Favorite Poet. These poems are a party come to break your heart, wondrously smart and wonderfully weird.”

— MATT BELL, AUTHOR OF APPLESEED

"Somehow I get the feeling that since Leigh Chadwick is here to write about our world that everything will be all right."

—Maureen Seaton, author of Undersea