Megan Falley's 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 women's 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."
Queer, feminist love poems for the body, the lover, and the self.
Industry Reviews
"Megan Falleys fourth collection of poetry is a love letter to the queer community. Though it includes more than a handful of personal love poems and breakup poems, the jam-packed volume...wrestles with subjects close to our collective heart: love and heartbreak, yes, but also shame, mental health, fear, femme invisibility, gun violence, body positivity, toxic masculinity, and self love...Falley puts words to the feelings that haunt us at dusk and delight us at dawn."
-Autostraddle
"Falley is electric. Unapologetic...her spoken-word poetry is heart-pounding advice for anyone looking to live an unabashed, unashamed, unrepentant life... Falley has turned her personal experiences into public prose, exposing her queerness and the raw chasm between self-confidence and self-doubt. Shes dissected moments in her own life thatve helped her and her listeners comprehend a womans existence on Earth."
-Boulder Weekly
