Sadie Dupuis "Mouthguard" Poetry/Book (2018)

Details: Sadie Dupuis' debut book of poetry released on Gramma.Press/Black Ocean in 2018. Softcover/trade paperback. 

Short Description: "Like crying alone in a movie theater, Mouthguard is tender, self-deprecating, nostalgic, and unavoidably romantic. In the end, we're all simultaneously comforted and freaked out by the idea that there is something bigger and deeper in the quiet spaces that operate within us, something just out of reach. This book gives us the language to describe this, a solid place we can remember together."

Grade: M (new stock)

Full Description: "The poems in Sadie Dupuis' Mouthguard are a means of developing a deep personal mythology; to read them is to feel what self-discovery is, and then recognize it in the rearview mirror, disappearing over the broken American horizon. They emerge from the place where known experience and the unknown collide; a borderline we all cross on the way to becoming ourselves.
 
Mouthguard's poems are magical escapism; devotional affirmations of manic love, or incantations about illness and loss and the strangeness of bodies. Sometimes they're creepy, sometimes droll, very often woe-is-me narcissistic.
 
Like crying alone in a movie theater, Mouthguard is tender, self-deprecating, nostalgic, and unavoidably romantic. In the end, we're all simultaneously comforted and freaked out by the idea that there is something bigger and deeper in the quiet spaces that operate within us, something just out of reach. This book gives us the language to describe this, a solid place we can remember together."

Author: "Sadie Dupuis is a poet and a multi-instrumentalist. She is the guitarist, lead vocalist, and lyricist for the band Speedy Ortiz. In November 2016 she released a solo album, *Slugger, under the name Sad13."

Press: "This is a book that hits you in your heart and third eye at the same time, thank god. Sadie is beyond talented."—Melissa Broder

"Mouthguard comforts you, then throws you into a lake, leaving you laughing and shivering at the same time."—Mira Gonzalez

"This is a book where magical poems drive us with a holy momentum towards a lonely road where on the side of it we can find a party of accidents that we are all invited to."—Dorothea Lasky