Nothing Will Save Your Life (Paperback)

Nancy Jo Cullen

ISBN 10: 1989496504 / ISBN 13: 9781989496503

Published by Wolsak & Wynn Publishers, 2022

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Paperback. Nothing Will Save Your Life is an explosion of pop culture, femininity, sex, religion and motherhood held together with humour and lightened with fragments of joy. In this book Nancy Jo Cullen has created a collection that is deeply rooted in the messy day-to-day of life but takes on serious issues such as body image, aging, climate change, capitalism and even death containing it all within traditional poetic forms. From kitten videos to confirmation bias to cucumber diets to vintage Vivienne Westwood, these poems are a whirlwind of constrained energy. Sometimes neurotic, sometimes bawdy, sometimes tender they are always irresistible to the reader, drawing us deep into Cullens world where she pulls apart society to show us just what it is to be alive in this moment. An explosion of pop culture, femininity, sex, religion and motherhood held together with humour and joy, this a collection deeply rooted in the messy day-to-day of life. In traditional poetic forms, it takes on serious issues such as body image, aging, climate change, capitalism and death. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nothing Will Save Your Life (Paperback)
• Publisher: Wolsak & Wynn Publishers
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1989496504
• ISBN 13: 9781989496503
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Nothing Will Save Your Life is an explosion of pop culture, femininity, sex, religion and motherhood held together with humour and lightened with fragments of joy.

In this book Nancy Jo Cullen has created a collection that is deeply rooted in the messy day-to-day of life but takes on serious issues such as body image, aging, climate change, capitalism and even death – containing it all within traditional poetic forms. From kitten videos to confirmation bias to cucumber diets to vintage Vivienne Westwood, these poems are a whirlwind of constrained energy. Sometimes neurotic, sometimes bawdy, sometimes tender – they are always irresistible to the reader, drawing us deep into Cullen’s world where she pulls apart society to show us just what it is to be alive in this moment.

About the Author

Nancy Jo Cullen’s poetry and fiction have appeared in several Canadian literary journals and anthologies, including Journey: Celebrating the Journey Prize. She is the 2010 recipient for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers. Her first novel, The Western Alienation Merit Badge, was shortlisted for the 2020 Amazon Canada First Novel Award. Her second novel, Dish, is forthcoming in the fall of 2026 with Wolsak & Wynn. Nancy Jo Cullen has published a collection of short stories, Canary, with Biblioasis and four collections of poetry, the most recent of which, Nothing Will Save Your Life, was published by Wolsak & Wynn in 2022.