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City of Hey Baby by Patrice Melnick

$14.99

 

Patrice Melnick‘s latest collection is a Dear John letter to her “old lover,” New Orleans. Amidst brown scum waterlines and refrigerators taped shut like rancid clams, her post-Katrina speaker recalls the good times of the broken relationship. Many writers have conveyed the sights or tastes of the city, but Melnick excels at capturing its smells, sounds, and sweaty skin-feels. The City of Hey Baby is also the City of Can’t Forget You, Baby, this collection makes wonderfully clear.

–Julie Kane

 

In City of Hey Baby, Patrice Melnick captures and celebrates the heart and soul of post-Katrina New Orleans, from the trials, endurance, and rebirth of human spirit to the music and cuisine that flood waters could not destroy. With nuance and detail that only a lover of the city can see, Melnick patiently and artfully stitches patches of images, feelings, and reflections into a patchwork that is uniquely New Orleans and worth cuddling with.

–John Warner Smith, State Poet Laureate of Louisiana

 

https://www.weirdsouth.com/post/city-of-hey-baby

–Review by Cheré Dastugue Coen

 

Interview:  https://mockingheartreview.com/2021/01/15/city-of-hey-baby-an-interview-with-patrice-melnick/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

City of Hey Baby

by Patrice Melnick

$14.99, paper

978-1-64662-336-5

2020

Patrice Melnick writes poetry and literary nonfiction.  She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.  Patrice Melnick’s memoir is entitled Po-boy Contraband: from Diagnosis Back to Life.  The City of Hey Baby is her first poetry collection. Patrice Melnick lives in Grand Coteau, Louisiana with her loving and very patient husband, Olan.

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