dr. madelyn hatter’s domestic transmission is a tome for hip housewives everywhere.  hatter celebrates the hard work of women, de-stigmatizing the strangely addictive Ladies Home Journal.  Her tongue-in-cheek tongue twisters will make you want to dig out your feather duster, tie on your apron, or plug in your Remington Heated Curlers.

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Delicate, delicious, and dreamy...while powerful, poetic, and precise…and truth-rooted.

In this daring collection of largely first person and personal narrative poems, Megan Volpert (a.k.a. dr. madelyn hatter) lays out the puzzle pieces that comprise her identity.  Her gripping command of language and keen ability to construct distinct and haunting images come to the fore as she writes about topics ranging from yeast infections to a mother's suicide.  The latter topic gently weaves its way through many of the poems, as Megan heartbreakingly searches for maternal relationships in television shows, academia, food, communism, intimate relationships, and comic books.  Her poems sizzle with want and pop with insight.  A postmodern Rumpelstiltskin, Megan has a talent for spinning mundane events into poetic gold.