• Lambda Literary Award Finalist
• Georgia Author of the Year Award Nominee
• American Library Association Over the Rainbow List Nominee
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Only Ride is a stunning collection. An emotionally gripping work that needs to be read a few times to understand its complexity, this book brings a real life to the page. If James Dean were reincarnated into a higher form, he’d be Megan Volpert. No mere actor delivering someone else's lines, Volpert presents amazing images of her own every day life that rival Joe Brainard for their power to arrest. And I'm not being hyperbolic – only trying to relate my enthusiasm for her writing.
Like a single-handed campaign for truth in advertising, Volpert is returning the pleasures of reality to the increasingly slick world of poetry. She bares her life without making the reader a voyeur. I was an active participant, reading and exclaiming, “I've felt like that!” She is an advocate of not glorifying domestic turmoil, writing about family life in short excerpts – her parents and teachers not able to see her world. I highly recommend this book to everyone striving to keep a positive view of human communication. Volpert explains how other people are not hell, how we can pursue happiness despite the work, the disease and the desperation that society accepts as given. - HAL SIROWITZ Watch trailer.
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Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014
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