Now Let's Get Brunch: A Collection of RuPaul's Drag Race Twitter Poetry
Now Let's Get Brunch: A Collection of RuPaul's Drag Race Twitter Poetry is the debut full-length collection from Alex Carrigan. The collection contains 40 cento poems created from the Twitter accounts of notable queens featured across the Drag Race television franchise. In these poems from popular queens like Trixie Mattel, Bianca Del Rio, Monet X. Change, Kim Chi, Bob the Drag Queen, Katya, and more, these poems collage statements of queer joy, toxic fandoms, LGBT+ issues, and more verses that are both humorous and blunt in their honesty.
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"Beyond the humor and the drama, these poems surface larger issues about selfhood, advocacy, and understanding. In a medium that is all about surface constructs, Carrigan deftly excavates the humanity from underneath the artifice of drag, of social media, of kitsch and public personas, and creates a work that is both hilarious and heart-rending."
-Jesi Bender, author of Kinderkrankenhaus
"'I don't even know what's real anymore, ' Shea Couleé laments in Alex Carrigan's Now Let's Get Brunch: A Collection of RuPaul's Drag Race Twitter Poetry. Luckily for us, Carrigan does. Delving deeper into the preoccupation with occupation and curiosity about celebrity captured in his earlier work, our pop culture explorer extraordinaire has sifted through 40 RPDR contestants' Twitter feeds to distill their unique voices into captivating poems that illustrate the authentic within the full spectrum of performance culture and identity on display. From the wit to the wrath and the fierce to the fading, with all the hope and heart whether they're chasing the dream or living it, crack this book's cover and "[l]et the showmance commence!"
-Raegen Pietrucha, author of Head of a Gorgon and An Animal I Can't Name, winner of the 2015 Two of Cups Press Prize
Following in the footsteps of his successful first release, Twitter cento expert Alex Carrigan does it again with Now Let's Get Brunch: A Collection of RuPaul's Drag Race Twitter Poetry. Carrigan paints each queen through the lens of their Twitter presence, examining beautifully profound and delightfully messy thoughts in tandem. The result is a collection which both portrays exemplifies the impact Drag Race has had on queer culture.
- nat raum, author of you stupid slut and the abyss is staring back
