Exhibitionist / Molly Cross-Blanchard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cross-Blanchard, Molly, author.

Language:

English

Genre:

Play.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

109 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Coach House Books, [2021]

Summary:

"Smart, raunchy poems that are sorry-not-sorry. One minute she's drying her underwear on the corner of your mirror, the next she's asking the sky to swallow her up: the narrator of Exhibitionist oscillates between a complete rejection of shame and the consuming heaviness of it. Painfully funny, brutally honest, and alarmingly perceptive, Molly Cross-Blanchard's poems use humour and pop culture as vehicles for empathy and sorry-not-sorry confessionalism. What this speaker wants more than anything is to be seen, to tell you the worst things about herself in hopes that you'll still like her by the end."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Meet-Cute

Meet-cute p. 15

You're not allowed to die p. 16

Dear Dolphin p. 17

We've all got a poem called Blood Quantum p. 18

It's clockwork p. 19

How do you suffer? p. 20

Granville Island p. 22

Just a sweet sweet fantasy, baby p. 23

If you love it let it mould p. 24

At 5 a.m., the love p. 25

You Think You Know Your Life

You think you know your life p. 29

Dear Dolphin II p. 31

Puncture wounds p. 32

Home from A&W in winter after seven beers p. 34

I'm such a modern woman when I brunch p. 35

You have two girlfriends p. 36

Hey, spirit guides p. 37

Nothing lazy can be good p. 38

It's so hard to live in the world p. 40

Way out, or Poem I wrote while jogging on 12th Ave p. 42

Let's talk about it p. 43

Happy for a time p. 45

I'm a woman without a lover p. 46

Are you there Molly? It's me, Hymen p. 47

When We're Young

When we're young and insecure about our intelligence p. 53

I famously don't care p. 54

Dear Mr. Decker p. 55

First-time smudge p. 67

Still fkn writing about him p. 68

I want to call you now and every time p. 69

Winnipeg, you're so pretty p. 70

We used to go to this dessert bar p. 72

Please don't sue me, Meghan Trainor. This is not a pop song p. 73

When I'm older p. 75

What Do You Do?

What do you do? p. 79

Junior Chicken p. 81

Not a tweet, not yet a poem p. 82

To the drummer from Halifax who shared my ice cream cone but didn't stay the night p. 84

Dear Dolphin III p. 85

I go to the orthodontist p. 86

You p. 87

This is a poem I've fashioned p. 89

Whoever invented cruise control just wanted to fuck themself p. 95

At Christmas p. 97

Pinky drum p. 98

Put it on my tombstone: 'It was just her personality' p. 99

Accidental boyf p. 100

But if p. 102

They will call this vulnerable p. 104.

Notes:

Poems.

Other Format:

Online version: Cross-Blanchard, Molly. Exhibitionist.

ISBN:

9781552454220

1552454223

OCLC:

1196246418

Publisher Number:

99987425256