Joy Is My Middle Name: Poems Jenny Odell From drudge work on a

From drudge work on a glamorous cruise liner

eventually becoming head bread baker

narcissistic ex-boyfriend and alcoholic

San Juan Mountains

● 1900s Cornflake Macaroons

Joy Is My Middle Name: Poems Jenny Odell From drudge work on aIn her best imitation of a historian, poet Sasha Debevec McKenney combs through the past. Joy Is My Middle Name is about crawling through your twenties and emerging into your thirties. Walking uneasily through cities and rural towns, talking about sex, race, womanhood, addiction, sobriety, consumerism, and pop culture, these poems pull at the edges of the performed self with ease. This remarkable debut collection showcases Debevec McKenney's intimate,