Poetry. Megan Boyle's debut poetry collection is at once confessional, sociological, emotional, detached, funny, sad, delightful, reckless, and meditative. Written in the naturally meticulous, defaultedly complex, always affecting voice of a person too imaginative and self-aware and intelligent to be fully consumed by depression and loneliness but too aware of the meaninglessness and ephemeral nature of existence (and too depressed and lonely) to write on any level but an existential, emotionally-driven, unsimplified one, Megan Boyle's debut poetry collection is the rare work of art that conveys troubling and scary information, undiluted, about humans and the universe but in a way, ultimately, that makes you excited to be alive, eager to be troubled and scared, grateful to simply be here.

Author City: BALTIMORE, MD USA

Megan Boyle (b. 1985) lives in Baltimore. She has been published by Thought Catalog, 3:AM, Pop Serial, and other venues.

Reviews and Other Links
author blog
Kristen Stone @ Limn Literary Book Reviews
interview by Josh Spilker @ Impose Magazine
Jeremy Spencer @ The Scrambler
Jennifer Schaffer @ The Stanford Daily
Kate Gray @ Library Journal
interview by Kelley Hoffman @ Elle
Robby Auld @ The Nervous Breakdown
Kelly McClure @ Vice
interview by Jay Gabler @ Twin Cities Daily Planet
Stephen Tully Dierks @ HTMLGIANT
interview by Nicolle Elizabeth @ The Brooklyn Rail
Aimee Nicole @ NewPages
Josh Cook @ The Rumpus