Bøker av Holly Painter

Holly Painter's third collection charts a course through the tender friendships and lonely queer crushes of childhood and adolescence in Midwestern America and on to the dizzying freedoms of California and the disorientation of love and heartache in New Zealand. Energetic and intimate, these poems blend the personal and the pastoral in their exploration of how we arrive at ourselves.Holly Painter is the author of Excerpts from a Natural History (Titus, 2015) and My Pet Sounds Off: Translating the Beach Boys (Finishing Line, 2020). Her poetry, fiction, and essays have been published in the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the U.K., Singapore, and China. Born in Michigan, she lives with her wife and two children in Vermont, where she teaches literature and writing at the University of Vermont.

My Pet Sounds Off "translates" 35 popular Beach Boys songs from English to English, updating, editorializing, and fooling around with the poppy lyrics of the world's favorite surf band. Put on your sunscreen. Pull out the deck chair. Prepare to revisit - with 21st century eyes and ears - the soundtrack to your adolescent romantic fantasies, crushing break-ups, and endless summers spent at the beach awash in ocean waves, pheromones, and tight harmonies.