Boss Broad

Megan Volpert

ISBN 10: 1943977631 / ISBN 13: 9781943977635

Published by Sibling Rivalry Press, LLC June 2019, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Boss Broad
• Publisher: Sibling Rivalry Press, LLC June 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1943977631
• ISBN 13: 9781943977635
• Binding: Paper Back
• Condition: Used
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About this title

Synopsis

Boss Broad contains forty poems and dozens of essays that explore what it takes to be a middle-aged hero. The poems are English-to-English translations of Bruce Springsteen songs--popular ones where he directly addresses a female listener, which Volpert audaciously rewrites to answer the Boss back using his own rhyme and meter. In these pages Volpert wears Springsteen's own lyrical swagger so that Rosalita becomes a drag queen, Wendy captains her own ship, and Bobby Jean finally comes out of the closet. The essays examine injections of spirituality in progressive politics, with topics including Stephen Colbert, Patti Smith, the author's career as a punk high school English teacher, what she learned surviving hurricanes in Louisiana, and meditations on what it means to be a cool liberal. As usual, Volpert trespasses on hallowed ground, doing battle with her white lady demons in the name of rock 'n' roll.

Review

"Megan Volpert has in common with other high-rolling ornery genius pistols a lot of nerve, a lot of heart, and an inability to leave anything said alone...Stay out of her way if you can't take a little mussing up." - Dara Wier, author of Reverse Rapture

"We trust her like we trusted our favorite bands in high school." - Grist Journal

"Her poetry is impolite, mocking, razor sharp, tough as saints sandals, funny, unexpected, and refreshing." - John Yau, author of Further Adventures in Monochrome