Book review: Erudite but accessible, mfernandespoet' new book, 'I Do Everything I'm Told,' will turn poetry agnostics into fans
"I Do Everything I'm Told" by Megan Fernandes Megan Fernandes' new book,"I Do Everything I'm Told," is a collection of unruly, irreverent love poems -- to the speaker's younger self, her former lovers and the child she aborted. Divided into four sections, it includes a sequence of sonnets that begins in Shanghai and touches down in cities across the globe.
Fernandes, an English professor and writer-in-residence at Lafayette College, has an unforgettable voice, filled with intense longing for both the sacred and profane. Her poems pay tribute to Rilke, Rimbaud, Brodsky and Ginsberg but also to pop culture figures like Frank Ocean, the Fugees, Lil Wayne and The Cars.
In"Orlando," one of the most moving poems in the book, the speaker daydreams about the abortion she had 14 years ago and an alternate life in which the child was born."I have no regrets, but I wonder if he's waiting in the sky somewhere or doing blow in another dimension where he's a rocker and very much flesh."
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