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An “unleashed love song” to her late grandmother, Nickole Brown’s collection brings her brassy, bawdy, tough-as-new-rope grandmother to life. With hair teased to Jesus, mile-long false eyelashes, and a white Cadillac Eldorado with atomic-red leather seats, Fanny is not your typical granny rocking in a chair. Instead, think of a character that looks a lot like Eva Gabor in Green Acres, but darkened with a shadow of Flannery O’Connor. A cross-genre collection that reads like a novel, this book is both a collection of oral history and a lyrical and moving biography that wrestles with the complexities of the South, including poverty, racism, and domestic violence.
"Nickole Brown’s unleashed love song to her grandmother is raucous and heart-rending, reflective and slap-yo-damn-knee hilarious, a heady meld of lyrical line and life lesson. Brown is blessed to be blood-linked to such a shrewd and singular soul, and the poet's mix of monologue, myth, and unbridled mayhem paints a picture of a proper Southern lady who is just—well, unforgettable." —Patricia Smith
"In Fanny Says, Nickole Brown distills the whole of America into one woman: bawdy, loving, racist, battered, healed, and gorgeous with determination. Our country has no history that does not touch the South. Our divisions are our unions. Here, Brown unleashes a voice returned to teach us a lesson. Reader, fair warning: you can’t hide from Fanny. You will be changed by this book." —Rebecca Gayle Howell
- Sales Rank: #834253 in Books
- Published on: 2015-04-14
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.90" h x .50" w x 6.90" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 136 pages
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A NewPages "Editor's Pick" for 2015
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"Brown’s sprawling sophomore collection is a lyrical biography of and tribute to her wise and irreverent southern grandmother. Along with a memorable lesson in the use of the word ‘flitter,’ what’ll stick most is this book’s unknown ‘word for all things left unbroken, a word for breakable yet unbroken things.’"—NPR Books
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"In a voice that is both authentic and colloquial, Brown tells the story, without sentimentality or clich�, of her grandmother Fanny. . . . It’s rare to find a book of poems that reads like a well-plotted page-turner, each poem propelling the reader into the next, each poem filled with story and song. This is that book. VERDICT Bawdy and real, this volume will stay with readers long after Fanny has had her final say."—Library Journal, Starred Review
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“Brown’s depiction of her cussing, pill-popping grandmother Fanny, who wears push-up brassieres along with starched, short-sleeved men’s ‘business’ shirts, is poignant, funny, and utterly real. Fanny’s tone and inflection come alive through the series of poems based on her actual words. And through Brown’s vivid, honest, and surprisingly nonjudgmental reflections, we develop, page by page, a mental image of her grandmother in the mid-twentieth-century South and can’t help but enjoy the process of getting to know Frances Lee Cox. While this collection honors Fanny’s span of years on this planet and her impact on her granddaughter, it also showcases the writer’s humor, insight, and poetic gifts.”—Booklist
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“This is a commentary on the South as a whole. . . . Fanny Says remains a tender character study above all else. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a film adapted from this. It endures sentiment and challenges social notions. It is true to humanity and breathed with life.”—NewPages
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“Nickole Brown has written an epic poem called Fanny Says. . . . It is in essence one long poem—138 pages—chambered like a heart and pumping language like blood to every stanza throughout this single, vital organ. Though Brown has written these words down, the oracular qualities of her grandmother, Frances Lee Cox—her distinctive way of speaking, idioms and regionalisms, malapropisms and profanities all—manifests so entirely that the reader is not really reading but listening as this monumental, multi-generational narrative unfolds.”—The Rumpus
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“Many of us find it difficult to tell our family stories—no surprise, as they are usually loaded. One of the accomplishments of Fanny Says is its skillful and unapologetic confrontation of the shamelessness of Brown’s people—and sometimes ours. . . . Here Brown is at her best—writing calamity with eloquence, speaking, in the same moment, Fanny’s complications and the poet’s claim on it. This book, like a grandmother’s love, is not always pretty, but it pulls you in and gives you so much truth.”—Oxford American Magazine
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“Brown blends descriptions of the immensely wise, brazen and sailor-mouthed Fanny with ruminations on both the power of memory and the Kentucky culture that surrounded them both. The editorial assistant for the late Hunter S. Thompson, the fabric of Brown's poems share threads of his deeply honest and personal reporting, but Fanny Says proves that she's a literary heavyweight in a class of her own.”—BookPage
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“Fanny Says delights and dazzles at every turn. In these poems, Brown finds the space and time to explore her own family and the South as an imagined location. In the tradition of great lesbian writers such as Dorothy Allison, Fannie Flagg, June Arnold and Rita Mae Brown, Nickole Brown spins a yarn that is at once fantastical and believable, one that leaves us, as readers, yearning for more.”—Lambda Literary
“Reading Nickole Brown’s new book of poems, Fanny Says, is like being introduced to someone you never want to let go, the kind of fierce, tender, acerbic, complicated woman who will snag you by your scruff and tell you what you don’t want to hear, and—in the next breath—what you need to hear.”—Gwarlingo
“Nickole Brown first established herself as a major talent with her 2007 novel in poems, Sister, and Fanny Says marks a further development in Brown’s exploration of what a poetry collection can be and do. . . . This book explores Fanny in all her troubled humanity, and confronts domestic violence, racism, and poverty in the American South.”—Tahoma Literary Review
"The imagery is blunt, the dialect true, and what unfolds is a metaphoric hope chest, a series of living flashbacks through which Brown creates a poetic treatise on memory’s workings. . . . With subtle technique, Brown encourages the reader to take liberty with these crisp narratives and provokes us to imagine Fanny beyond the page." —Oxford American
“Brown delivers poetic mastery with extraordinary craft and control of language, images, line and diction.” —Lambda Literary
“Like Allen Ginsberg’s Kaddish or Sarah Blake’s Mr. West, this book draws its energy from the personality of its main character/subject and the way the speaker engages with it. The main character of Fanny Says is likeable, foulmouthed, strange, immensely memorable, and perhaps most importantly, very funny. In memorializing Fanny, Nickole Brown has made her come alive." —Los Angeles Review
About the Author
Nickole Brown grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, and Deerfield Beach, Florida. Her first collection, Sister, was published by Red Hen Press in 2007. She received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, studied literature at Oxford University, and was the editorial assistant for the late Hunter S. Thompson. She is the Editor for the Marie Alexander Series in Prose Poetry at White Pine Press, and is also an Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, where she lives with her wife, poet Jessica Jacobs.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
You'll hear Kentucky talking, when Fanny says
By Mary Popham, author, Back Home in Landing Run
She steals from her sister’s purse to go to the movies. She steals from her neighbor to pay it back. But as Fanny’s loving granddaughter, Koey, writes it all down, we recognize the brains, fortitude and mostly, love of life in the spirited Kentucky woman. Reading the conversations that the author captured as best she could while her grandmother gave her observations on life, death and everything between, we hear Fanny speak, see her pretty face and high-teased hair in a spotlight that imprints her image. It is Kentucky that shines from her reflection, and Kentucky talking in Nickole Brown’s poetic biography. We learn “Fanny Linguistics: How to Say What You Mean,” and her grandmother’s adamant advice, “Spit that gum out now, and hurry, go put on your face . . .” and “Don’t carry a purse but a pocketbook.” Fanny often speaks of her husband—sometimes with love, sometimes scorn, but always there in her consciousness: “ . . . and when Monroe belts out/ ‘In the Pines’ at full vibrato/ from the roof, he’ll stop his hammering/ long enough to yell down/ for rim-rams and tim-tams.” Her favorite car is a Cadillac Eldorado, her drink is a fresh Pepsi—“She might have coffee later, before her shows came on, but this was the drink that woke her, the drink that kept her up.” Fanny’s best-loved hair color is Clairol, Sweet Silver, and her vacation spot—Florida. Another love is “A book of birds. A story in birds. Each breath/ a bird, each dream slipped from my ear/ to my pillow out the window a song:/ cardinals laughing at me—birdie birdie birdie.” When reading Fanny Says, you will know her. You will hear her speech in your head long after you turn the last delicious page. From Bowling Green to Louisville, it will be Kentucky that you hear talking, and Nickole Brown is the master poet telling the story.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Keep Saying, Fanny!
By Philip F. Clark
It is rare to fall in love at first sight, but it happens; it is just as rare to fall in love at first read, but I did. Nickole Brown, in "Fanny Says" has given us one of the most extraordinary females ever written into poems. A culmination of memories and direct experience of her grandmother, Fanny comes completely alive in every poem. She is the ultimate saint, sinner, and poltergeist; brash by what life has thrown at her, and deeply loving by how she lives in her core. Brown has captured the voice of a particular time and place, and the gestures of an incomparable personality. And for once, I found myself laughing out loud with complete abandon at some of the wittiest, raw, and honest episodes in this frenetically-loving woman. I can think of no other volume of poetry in a very long time that presents such an indelible and real human presence. And these are poems not only of remembrance, but of tribute and acclamation. To a person who was a rock for the poet, as well as a harbor--providing guidelines and lifelines. The book is worth the read for the sections called "Fanny Linguistics" alone! But there is so much more. If poetry is the art of transforming experience into mind and emotion, you will come away from this collection having been introduced to someone you greatly become attached to. One doesn't, at the end, want Fanny to go. These poems are brilliant conversations, monologues, and dialogues. They are resonant with insight and human chatter. These poems make Fanny a relative of the reader. Nickole Brown not only has found extraordinary new forms in which language is transcribed, but she also reminds us that at best, we are the caretakers of our genealogy, and those lives that help make use who we are. A debut of heart-mined, extraordinary poems. Fanny lives. Thank God. A book that will keep speaking for years to come.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
you are pulled into affection by the poet's eye for detail and at the same time prompted to recall similarities with your own gr
By Daniel Casey
a thoroughly loving narrative portrait of the poet's grandmother that is at once specific and general, you are pulled into affection by the poet's eye for detail and at the same time prompted to recall similarities with your own grandmother--but better yet a whole generation of women as remembered by their children's children.
What's also wonderful about the collection is its length. Good, long narrative poems (that aren't stolid and weighed down by needless formalism) in a thick collection (over 130 pages). This gives Brown the time to mull over phrases and words, the jargon of grandmothers
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