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Poetry. "Don't believe Melissa Broder when she writes, 'I'm afraid / to say anything with heart.' This book is not afraid, as she proves right away and on every page, and that's why we needed her to make it. A little dark, a little damaged, a little deranged, but definitely not afraid—and never short on the titular organ, which also acts as mouth and mind. The whole book pumps, and I swear some of what's coming in and out are flashes of light that you can read it by."—Mark Bibbins

"The speaker in MEAT HEART is either an old-world witch or a contemporary warlock. That is to say, this speaker-being gallops through time making thrilling observations. There is a focus on meat, blood and food. The poems tear through the reader with a reassuring giggle, yet remain ominous. Broder writes, 'I find a thighbone in his mattress / and think of friends gone missing.' She also writes 'G-d loves my hair,' so we are reminded not to be overly frightened. To read MEAT HEART is to consume, perish, murder, glitter, and prophesize. To say that Broder is fearless is not saying enough."—Natalie Lyalin

"With her hallmark wit and brilliance, Melissa Broder has followed up her heralded WHEN YOU SAY ONE THING BUT MEAN YOUR MOTHER with MEAT HEART, a book of poems that is at once apocalyptic, full of sorrow, and packed with images crystalline in their beauty and truth. In these poems, Broder takes us through a world that is both alien and familiar to the world that we already know, a wild landscape where there is 'ash fish / and elemental octopi,' where 'cornhusk filaments / Still jacket tongues,' and where in a place with '200 flavors of panic / the worst is seeing with no eyes.' All of these freakish things to help us confront the bald fact that we are all just a series of meat hearts ourselves. It is here that Broder shows her generosity as a poet, because she makes us a new world in these poems where we go beyond meat—a world where Broder tells us, 'Somewhere I stopped looking for magic.' I guess she found all she needed; this book is full of magic."—Dorothea Lasky

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88 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Publishing Genius Press
Publication date

March 6, 2012
Dimensions

5.5 x 0.3 x 8.2 inches
ISBN-10

0983170665
ISBN-13

978-0983170662
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The whole book pumps, and I swear some of what s coming in and out are flashes of light that you can read it by. --Mark Bibbins, author of The Dance of No Hard Feelings

…a book of poems that is at once apocalyptic, full of sorrow, and packed with images crystalline in their beauty and truth… This book is full of magic. --Dorothea Lasky, author of Awe

To read Meat Heart is to consume, perish, murder, glitter, and prophesize. To say that Broder is fearless is not saying enough. --Natalie Lyalin, author of Pink and Hot Pink Habitat

About the Author

Melissa Broder is also the author of MEAT HEART (Publishing Genius Press, 2012) and WHEN YOU SAY ONE THING BUT MEAN YOUR MOTHER (Ampersand Books, 2010), which Publishers Weekly calls "as funny and hip as it is disturbing." Poems appear or are forthcoming in Guernica, Redivider, The Missouri Review online, Drunken Boat, Court Green, Barrelhouse, Opium and more. She edits the online journal La Petite Zine and curates the Polestar Poetry Series. By day she is a publicity manager at Penguin. She lives in Brooklyn.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Publishing Genius Press (March 6, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 88 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0983170665
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0983170662
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.3 x 8.2 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #2,032,333 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #11,205 in American Poetry (Books)

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Melissa Broder is the author of the novels MILK FED (February 2021) and THE PISCES, the essay collection SO SAD TODAY, and five collections of poems including LAST SEXT and the forthcoming SUPERDOOM: Selected Poems.

She lives in Los Angeles.

www.melissabroder.com

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Josie Palmer

I liked this book better then "When You Say One Thing ...

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I liked this book better then "When You Say One Thing but Mean Your Mother"....and the print was so much better on this book. However, I do not connect with this poetry as much as I would have liked. Personal preference I suppose.

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Matt Lewis

Broder's poetry celebrates a feminine nature that has been denied for far too long.

Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2015

Broder's poetry celebrates a feminine nature that has been denied for far too long. It screams itself free of the conventions of histories, cultures, peoples, and exists as its own unique artifact. She channels so much of what is wrong and what is right with the human condition and distills them down into terse yet awe-inspiring displays of writing

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AmpersandBooks

Destroying the triteness of the "Heart" in poetry

Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2012

When one thinks of the `heart' in poetry, one thinks of lovelorn teens frolicking through a meadow, ignorance and blame, self-absorption and ponies; in a word, one thinks of clichés and vague nothings. Beginning with the title of her second collection, Broder destroys the triteness of the `heart' in poetry by getting right to the core of what the heart really is: meat. Broder is sending a clear message: this won't be a collection sensitive poems hiding truth behind sentimentality. This is going to be messy and real.

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