Name: I Do Everything I'm Told
ISBN: 9781953534880

Megan Fernandes

"In the absence of love, ritual. / Understand that ritual is a kind of patience, an awaiting and waiting. Keep / waiting, kitten. You will be surprised what you can come back from."

I Do Everything I'm Told

really cool collection. leitmotifs in references, tongue-in-cheek humor, and devastation at the same time realizing personal patterns. cool section w sonnets and deconstructions of them. 

read for brooklyn poets mentorship program reading group

personal copy, bought from greenlight bookstore

Patricia K

really cool collection. leitmotifs in references, tongue-in-cheek humor, and devastation at the same time realizing personal patterns. cool section w sonnets and deconstructions of them. 

read for brooklyn poets mentorship program reading group

personal copy, bought from greenlight bookstore

Your face, open, like a lion. It took me too

long to realize that people who read Marx can

"I piss on a rock. A solo trumpeter rips a song across the lake, the melody

finished reading this mess just to have the right to say that this is absolutely horrendous. what irks me the most is megan fernandes calling herself a poet on her pages. quirky spacing doesn't make one a poet. watching someone pissing on a rock would be more poetic than whatever this is, probably a better investment of my time, too. at least it would have ended sooner

lily lily 

"I used to beat women, you tell me.

Your face, open, like a lion. It took me too

long to realize that people who read Marx can

also beat women"

"I piss on a rock. A solo trumpeter rips a song across the lake, the melody

running black."

finished reading this mess just to have the right to say that this is absolutely horrendous. what irks me the most is megan fernandes calling herself a poet on her pages. quirky spacing doesn't make one a poet. watching someone pissing on a rock would be more poetic than whatever this is, probably a better investment of my time, too. at least it would have ended sooner

mira lee

Elena Kuran

The best book of poems I've read in a long time. She anchors her experiences geographically, with control and clarity, humor and irreverence. I'll read it again and again.

I Do Everything I'm Told

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