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""Midsummer Night's Toast is a book of relentless, headlong energy. These skillful and fiery poems, trapped between reverence for literary tradition and immense cynicism, stake out a wild and granular territory (one poem, for example, is titled ""When my husband slides a record from Barbra Streisand's sleeve and it's actually The Best of Aerosmith""). These poems delve into tip work, into the service economy, into the endless scroll, into ""the earnest century where you got paid per word""; they subvert our expectations of what is immediate, what is remote, what is familiar, what can never be pinned down. ""[T]hey don't know about the poetry,"" the speaker announces to the reader, ""how it sometimes makes things worse."""" – Natalie Shapero, author of Popular Longing

Midsummer Night's Toast is a book of relentless, headlong energy. These skillful and fiery poems, trapped between reverence for literary tradition and immense cynicism, stake out a wild and granular territory (one poem, for example, is titled ""When my husband slides a record from Barbra Streisand's sleeve and it's actually The Best of Aerosmith""). These poems delve into tip work, into the service economy, into the endless scroll, into ""the earnest century where you got paid per word""; they subvert our expectations of what is immediate, what is remote, what is familiar, what can never be pinned down. ""[T]hey don't know about the poetry,"" the speaker announces to the reader, ""how it sometimes makes things worse."" --Natalie Shapero, author of Popular Longing

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Mamie Morgan's poems and essays have appeared in Oxford American, The Atlantic, Muzzle, Four Way Review, Sixth Finch, Carolina Quarterly, Smartish Pace, and elsewhere. Her first collection, Everyone I've Danced with Is Dead, was published by JackLeg in 2024. She lives in South Carolina with her husband and their dogs, Henrietta Modine and Wednesday Stewart.

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