Mascara, Boobs & Headbands

About the Book

Susan borrows 80s song lyrics to transform them (via the golden shovel form) into long-lined poems tied together with fearless wit, rhythm, and sharp-tongued agency: “the dreams a girl keeps like a bent knife in her boot / like a fistful of borrowed fire.” In these pages you’ll find poems “bruised and sugared,” a little wild, a little broken, and ever relentless.