Your Favorite Poet
(By Leigh Chadwick)
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Praise for YOUR FAVORITE POET
“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
“True to its title, Your Favorite Poet delivers everything you’d expect of your favorite poet: crackling language, sharp intelligence, blistering insights, and the kind of heartbreak helixed with humor befitting a keenly observant writer wielding impeccable craft. Leigh Chadwick is a master of building and deconstructing a scene, a writer so dexterous at pivoting from one image to the next and so wrecking ball-powerful at shattering a narrative that every poem left me steeped in delight or devastation, wondering: how did she do that? Stop what you’re doing right now and buy this brilliant book.”
—Todd Dillard, author of Ways We Vanish
“From suburban heart-sprawl to bacterial conjunctivitis to onions in the attic, Leigh Chadwick brings tears to the eyes. Mixing dubstep and dada, wit and luscious images, these poems are voice- driven kazoos in a church pew during communion. If Chadwick isn’t your favorite poet, she may be your favorite poem.”
—Alina Stefanescu, author of Dor
“Leigh Chadwick is a sui generis writer who captures, with searing clarity, the luridness of our present moment of pop culture obsession and bullet ridden schools. Leigh’s poems do more than provoke, they invite the reader into moments of tenderness and hope that give us a reason to cling to this beautiful and awful world. Chadwick has her finger squarely on the pulse of the contemporary moment, and her poems are funny, joyous, and sad. In short, they are a wonder.”
—Andrew Bertaina, author of One Person Away From You
"My name is MM Carrigan, and this is a blurb endorsing Leigh Chadwick as Your Favorite Poet. I hope this will influence you to give Leigh Chadwick and Malarkey Books your money and attention. These are good poems, obviously my favorites.”
– MM Carrigan, literary influencer and founder and editor-in-chief of Taco Bell Quarterly
“From the very beginning, starting with the prologue, Leigh Chadwick wastes neither time nor words. She writes with an honesty and longing that chronicles what it is to be alive in such violent, unstable times—what it is to be a mother when nothing is certain. Her words offer hope and yet brutal honesty, and we must decide how to hold both at once inside each breath of her poetry.”
—Adrienne Marie Barrios, editor-in-chief of Reservoir Road Literary Review
“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
“Reading Leigh Chadwick, I get the sense that there are many Leigh Chadwicks out there—which is a pretty comforting thought to me. Or maybe reading Leigh Chadwick gives me the sense that there are infinite versions of ourselves—each striving for perplexing and imperfect grace? In any case, it is comforting that we have this one Leigh Chadwick, the serious and hilarious writer who has filled her singular collection of poetry, Your Favorite Poet, with as much righteous indignation, feral silliness, and profound joy as a single version of any of us can take.”
—Shane Kowalski, author of Small Moods
“Leigh Chadwick manipulates possibility like a magician, effortlessly pulling back a heavy curtain to demonstrate how the things you imagine can become something real—like a daydream or the way a ghost might touch your shoulder and then disappear. Your Favorite Poet is a book I would recommend for every shelf.”
—Danielle Rose, author of at first & then”
