Never Née Fey - by Dana Miller (Paperback)

About the Book

Never Née Fey is a two-part, full-length chapbook containing a reverse-order narrative series of fanged wolf-woman poetry.

Book Synopsis

Never Née Fey is the book any woman seeking the first bent tree limb indicating the hidden path to independence is looking for. This is a savage poetry collection that makes absolutely zero room for even the most microscopic apology for outsized feminine power and total, curled-nose rejection of everything the world says women should want and stand down to. Common impositions like motherhood and men are openly mocked. All the familiar excuses made to women, and that women make to themselves even more frequently, are excoriated, then set loose and shooed away. Through lyrical lenses like Ireland, grunge rock boys, and forest scenes, Never Née Fey will take even the reader who didn't come looking for any special liberation someplace freer than they were before while simultaneously training them not be ashamed of the high costs, both personal and beyond, such journeys always command.

Review Quotes

"Dana's poetry is both warm and cozy like sipping cognac by a fire and daring, dark and dangerous like riding a unicycle on a tightrope. When poetry possesses the power to put you through an emotional rollercoaster, it is precious and priceless. Walking the line between Pulitzer-level intellect and accessibility is a tightrope act in itself. I'm speechless and honestly can't find the proper adjectives. You just need to dive in headfirst."

-Anthony J. Resta (Composer, Producer, Multi-instrumentalist: Duran Duran,

Nuno Bettencourt, Elton John)

"Born of lived traumas, Dana's pen draws blood-this collection is the fiercest of poetic avengements. Surely there is prescience in Dana's own words: 'the new favourite is on the rise'."

-Cauvery Madhavan (Novelist: Paddy Indian, The Tainted)