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Overview
Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology offers 54 poets’ takes on often-unsung facets of this diamond in a rhinestone world—calling in Dolly’s impeccable comedic timing, her lyric mastery, her business acumen, and her Dollyverse advocacy. These poems remind us to be better and to do better, to subvert Dolly cliché, and they encourage us to weave Dolly metaphor into our own family lore. Within these pages, Dolly takes the stage and the dinner table; readers see the public Dolly of the silver screen and the private Dolly of identity contemplation. Dolly raises praise and question, and she butterflies into our hearts to unabashedly to claim the mantra In Dolly We Trust.
With Dolly poems from 54 contributors:
Kelli Russell Agodon • Nin Andrews • Lana K. W. Austin • David-Matthew Barnes • Nicky Beer • Julie E. Bloemeke • Emma Bolden • Dustin Brookshire • Phillip Watts Brown • Marina Carreira • Denise Duhamel • teri elam •Rupert Fike • Diamond Forde • Chad Frame • Makayla Gay • Tyler Gillespie • Kari Gunter-Seymour • Robert Gwaltney • Beth Gylys • Karen Head • Raye Hendrix • Collin Kelley • Dorianne Laux • Chin•Sun Lee • Arden Levine • Katie Manning • Kelly McQuain • Lynn Melnick • Jenny Molberg • Rachel Morgan • Caridad Moro-Gronlier • Carolyn Oliver • Dion O’Reilly • Jeffrey Perkins • Stephen Roger Powers • Steven Reigns • Linda Neal Reising • Benjamin Anthony Rhodes • Micah Ruelle • Anna Sandy-Elrod • Roberta Schultz • Maureen Seaton • Gregg Shapiro • L.J. Sysko • Nicole Tallman • Kerry Trautman • Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer • Dan Vera • Isaiah Vianese • Donna Vorreyer • Julie Marie Wade • Jennifer Wheelock • Yvonne Zipter
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781956440522 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Madville Publishing |
| Publication date: | 01/17/2023 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 5 MB |
About the Author
Dustin Brookshire (he/him) a finalist for the 2021 Scotti Merrill Award, is the founder/editor of Limp Wrist, curator of the Wild & Precious Life Series (a Zoom-based poetry reading series), program director for Reading Queer, and founding chapter president of the South Florida Poets. He is the author of three chapbooks: Never Picked First for Playtime (Harbor Editions, 2023), Love Most of You Too (Harbor Editions, 2021) and To The One Who Raped Me (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2012). Visit him online at www.dustinbrookshire.com.
Table of Contents
Contents
Take Me Back To Where We Started From
A Note from Editor Dustin Brookshire xi
Seventy-Five Lines for Dolly’s Seventy-Fifth xiv
Denise Duhamel, Maureen Seaton & Julie Marie Wade
A Note from Editor Julie E. Bloemeke xvii
It’s Time I Show The World Just What I’m About
The Intimate Biography 1
Chad Frame
The Great Equalizer 3
Diamond Forde
Perfect Pitch 4
Kari Gunter-Seymour
Dolly Said “No” to Elvis 5
Dorianne Laux
Dolly, When I Met You There Was Peace 6
Katie Manning
Dolly Parton argues a theory of linguistics. posits 7
Tyler Gillespie
The Yassification of Dolly Parton 8
L.J. Sysko
Dolly’s Debut 10
Linda Neal Reising
The Porter Wagoner Show 11
Rupert Fike
Breakup 13
Beth Gylys
Too Much for Me 14
Yvonne Zipter
If You Play “Jolene” at 33 rpm 15
Phillip Watts Brown
Dolly Would 17
Julie E. Bloemeke
Were it not for the moonlight 20
Kelli Russell Agodon
Spirit of ’76 21
Gregg Shapiro
I overhear a boy humming “Jolene” while he practices long division 22
Carolyn Oliver
Dolly Refuses the Nomination 23
Donna Vorreyer
If this song seems strange, it’s just because I don’t know how to pray. 24
Arden Levine
Tryin’ To Find What Feels Like Home
Drag Day at Dollywood 29
Nicky Beer
Pilgrimage 31
Dan Vera
Dolly Keeps on Burnin’ 32
Lana K. W. Austin
These Mountains 33
Rachel Morgan
Lesson Two 34
Jennifer Wheelock
Cleoparton 35
Stephen Roger Powers
Dolly Style 36
Nicole Tallman
Eugene, Oregon/Homesick 37
Raye Hendrix
My Broadway Crush Covers “Wildflowers” 38
Isaiah Vianese
Nashville 39
San Fernando 40
Jeffrey Perkins
Dolly at the Fox Theater (2008) 41
Dustin Brookshire
Never Did Say So 43
Caridad Moro-Gronlier
Read Into It What You Will But See Me As I Am
How do you, as a woman, dare to write about sex? 47
Nin Andrews
Dolly 48
Kelly McQuain
It’s All Wrong, But It’s Alright 49
Benjamin Anthony Rhodes
IS IT ALL YOU? 50
Jenny Molberg
Dolly’s Breasts 52
Dorianne Laux
Just Because I’m a Woman 53
Marina Carreira
Dolly Parton as Sonnet 54
Denise Duhamel
Dear Dolly Parton, I Too Wanted 55
Anna Sandy-Elrod
Making Breakfast with Dolly 56
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Ode to Dolly 58
Dion O’Reilly
Guide Me And Keep Me Dolly Parton is My Life Coach 61
Kelli Russell Agodon
Sweet Cravings 62
Kerry Trautman
Roosters & Hens 64
Collin Kelley
Dolly Parton Ghazal 66
Denise Duhamel & Julie Marie Wade
Interview 67
Roberta Schultz
Conversations with Dolly Parton at 3 a.m. 69
Makayla Gay
Visitation 70
Micah Ruelle
R e s c u e 71
Chin-Sun Lee
Instructions for my Burial Clothes 72
Karen Head
Will He Be Waiting for Me 73
Lynn Melnick
In the Dream, Dolly Offers to Officiate 74
Julie Marie Wade
Butterflies 75
Robert Gwaltney
Walking to Kmart to Buy a Dolly Parton Album 76
David-Matthew Barnes
One Year Before His Death, Peter Hujar Sees Dolly Parton 78
Steven Reigns
Asexual Ode to Dolly Parton 79
Emma Bolden
A Dolly Parton Kinda Love 80
teri elam
Acknowledgments 81
Credits & Notes 83
Contributor Bios 87
Muralist / Photographer Bios 95
Editor Bios 96