Bar Fights with Sad Kids by Melina Cohen-Bramwell

$17.99

 

This fine book from an exciting new voice—by turns quiet and raucous, tender and cruel—tells of the costs and rewards of the emergence of the true self. The poems plumb the depths of bitterness and despair, sometimes with surprising irony and even humor (“I think of drowning when I think of freedom” and “He’s a three-time PTSD award winner”).  Packed with fresh, raw images and perspectives, fierce, and achingly vulnerable, they remind us that humanity transcends gender and race, or should, every time.

–Rebecca Foust, Marin Poet Laureate emerita and author of ONLY (Four Way Books 2023)

 

An unabashedly honest, ticklingly sardonic and tauntingly witty collection of poetry, Bar Fights with Sad Kids, is a fearless journey through rock bottoms, childhood wonderments and self-rediscoveries like no other. Melina’s whiplash verse is a deftly composed tour de melancholias that, at times, hits like a wet slap— surprising, visceral and you’re definitely into it.

–Linda Maria Girón, playwright, multimedia artist

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Bar Fights with Sad Kids

by Melina Cohen-Bramwell

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List: $17.99

979-8-88838-708-5

2024

Bar Fights with Sad Kids is a rollercoaster ride through a formative decade, covering topics such as addiction, parental divorce, and that pissy smell that pervades the city of San Francisco. If you remember what it felt like to be in your teens and early twenties, or how great it feels not to be in your teens and early twenties anymore, this book is for you. Grab your copy, brace your core, and make it out of the bar fight alive.

Melina Cohen-Bramwell dropped out of high school to join the circus but, as it soon became clear, was far better suited to a life of hermitage. Melina now communicates with the outside world primarily through scraps of paper covered in discarded lines that float out the window on breezy afternoons— and the occasional cohesive manuscript slipped in single pages under the door. If you wander about when the moon is high and the wind blows at just the right timbre, you might catch a glimpse of Melina darting in and out of the shadows in the San Francisco Bay Area.

 

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