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Wailing On Whisper Street (Second Edition) by Bree Bailey
Wailing On Whisper Street (Second Edition) by Bree Bailey
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In a world that pushes you to whisper, it's time to wail.
If you love Andrea Gibson's raw tenderness and Sandra Cisneros's House on Mango Street honesty, you'll love this new edition of Wailing on Whisper Street.
Bree Bailey's popular collection is now in it's second edition with new poems added. This book is for the smart girls who cried harder at the bridge of a song than they ever let themselves cry in real life. It walks through divorce, heartbreak, and the exhausting comedy of love, lit and raising a kid alone.
This book does not lower its voice for any of it. Bailey writes as the Latina daughter, the broke kid, the bisexual woman who came out late because someone always needed her to be someone else first, and she survives all of it the way the funniest people always do, by finding the joke inside the wreckage.
If you've ever underlined a stranger's poem because it said the thing you'd been swallowing for years, get out your highlighters, this book is for you.
until I saw the shadows of someone who looked celebrity
and looked mirrored madman monster
and looked at me
and I caught a bus home alone,
too poor for pirates to rob my pretty.
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Bree Bailey (she/her) is a Latine mom and poet who lives in Southern Austin, Texas, with her family. Her poems have been featured in All My Relations, Sledgehammer Lit, Ample Remains, Olney Magazine, Serotonin, Wrongdoing Magazine, and West Trade Review, and are forthcoming in Gulf Stream Magazine, among others.
