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SIGNED SPECIAL EDITION INCLUDES CUSTOM FRENCH FLAPS PLUS BROADSIDE AND POSTER AND A SET OF HELL YEAH TEMPORARY KNUCK TATS
Viral in the social neon … Toarminos got it.” Nick Sturm
“These poems sing into the wild. ” Hoa Nguyen
“I want everyone who loves poetry to read this book.” CAConrad
Hell Yeah, Rachelle Toarminos highly anticipated second collection of poems, is an intimate, ecstatic examination of the wonders of common speech. As automatic and wholehearted as a hell yeah between friends, the poems interject into various sites of the interpersonalfrom a work email and doctors office to a long-distance call and Yahoo! Answers rabbit holeto measure the strange, mundane, and ancient ways we relate and respond to one another. In an alternating rhythm of logic and lyric, doubt and doubling down, Toarmino regifts plain and inherited language to arrive at a theory for familiarity and something like faith: how we know what we know and why we share what we know. With curiosity, generosity, oddball intellect, and charm, Hell Yeah captures that gut impulse to feel yes, say so, and sing it.
About the Author:
Rachelle Toarmino is a poet from Niagara Falls, New York. She is the author of the poetry collections Hell Yeah and That Ex, as well as several chapbooks, most recently My Science, winner of the 2024 Sixth Finch Chapbook Contest. Her work has appeared in Poets.org, Literary Hub, Electric Literature, American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, Southeast Review, The Slowdown, and Omnidawn, which awarded her its 2024 Single Poem Broadside Prize. She earned her MFA in poetry at UMass Amherst, where she received an Academy of American Poets Prize. She is also the founding editor in chief of the literary publishing project Peach Mag and the creator and lead instructor of Beauty School, an independent poetry school. She lives in Buffalo.
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