Drive Here and Devastate Me

Megan Falleys much-anticipated fourth collection of poetry shocks you with its honesty: whether through exacting wit or lush lyrical imagery. It is clear that the author is madly in love not only with her partner for whom she writes both idiosyncratic and sultry poems for but in love with language in love with queerness in love with the therapeutic process of bankrupting the politics of shame. These poems tackle gun violence toxic masculinity LGBTQ* struggles suicidality and the oppression of womens bodies while maintaining a vivid wildness that the tongue aches to speak aloud. Known best for breathtaking last lines and truths that will bowl you over Drive Here and Devastate Me will relinquish you from the possibility of meeting who you could have been and regretting who you became.