Good boys poems Poems. Selections Fernandes, Megan creator author. text Poetry. Poetry. oru 2020 2020 First U.S. edition. monographic eng print 110 pages ; 23 cm "In an era of rising nationalism and geopolitical instability, Megan Fernandes's Good Boys offers a complex portrait of messy feminist rage, negotiations with race and travel, and existential dread in the Anthropocene. The collection follows a restless, nervy, cosmically abandoned speaker failing at the aspirational markers of adulthood as she flips from city to city, from enchantment to disgust, always reemerging-just barely-on the trains and bridges and barstools of New York City. A child of the Indian ocean diaspora, Fernandes enacts the humor and devastation of what it means to exist as a body of contradictions. Her interpretations are muddied. Her feminism is accusatory, messy. Her homelands are theoretical and rootless. The poet converses with goats and throws a fit at a tarot reading; she loves the intimacy of strangers during turbulent plane rides and has dark fantasies about the "hydrogen fruit" of nuclear fallout. Ultimately, these poems possess an affection for the doomed: false beloveds, the hounded earth, civilizations intent on their own ruin. Fernandes skillfully interrogates where to put our fury and, more importantly, where to direct our mercy"-- adult Megan Fernandes. Identity (Psychology) Poetry Poetry, Modern 21st century Identity (Psychology) Poetry 2000-2099 fast PS3606.E7328 A6 2020 811/.6 9781947793408 1947793403 9781947793491 2019031495 pda,print DLC 190729 20250318220736.0 in00004167307 eng