I'm So Fine
A List of Famous Men & What I Had On
Published on 15. March 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-936919-46-8 (ISBN)
Description
Included in U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith's feature, "6 Recent Collections that Deliver Truth with Originality and Grace" in O, The Oprah Magazine, April 2018
Finalist, CLMP Firecracker Award in Fiction, 2018
Finalist, American Book Fest Best Book Award in Fiction, 2018
Finalist, Balcones Poetry Prize, 2017
Longlist, Julie Suk Award, 2018
Part 1980s and 1990s nostalgia, part exuberant storytelling, I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On turns a sharply humorous magnifying glass onto gendered interactions in daily life, framed primarily by random celebrity encounters in Los Angeles. Far from a narrative of fame-chasing or conceit, however, I'm So Fine breathlessly addresses what it means for a woman to fight for dignity and survival in an often hostile environment, to come into her own power as she decides what she wants for herself "& mostly gets its every fineness."
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 191 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
195 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-936919-46-8 (9781936919468)
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Person
Khadijah Queen is a multidisciplinary writer and visual artist. Queen is ¿the author of six books, most recently Anodyne (Tin House 2020), a ¿finalist for the Colorado Book Award and winner of the William Carlos ¿Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her fifth book, I'm ¿So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On (YesYes Books 2017), ¿was praised in O Magazine, The New Yorker, Rain Taxi, and elsewhere ¿as "quietly devastating" and "a portrait of defiance that turns the male ¿gaze inside out." Her verse play Non-Sequitur (Litmus Press 2015) won ¿the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women's Performance ¿Writing. The award included a full production at Theaterlab in New ¿York City, directed by Fiona Templeton and performed by The ¿Relationship theater company. A hybrid essay about the pandemic, ¿"False Dawn," appeared in Harper's Magazine, was named a Notable ¿Essay of 2020 in Best American Essays (HarperCollins 2021), and ¿reprinted in the anthology Bigger Than Bravery (2023). Individual ¿poems, interviews, and essays appear in Ploughshares, American ¿Poetry Review, Georgia Review, The Believer, Orion, Fence, Poetry,¿ Yale Review, The Offing, The Poetry Review (UK), and widely ¿elsewhere. In 2022, she was awarded a Disability Futures fellowship¿ from United States Artists. A Cave Canem alum, she holds a PhD in ¿English and Literary Arts from University of Denver and teaches ¿creative writing, literature and poetics. A book of criticism is ¿forthcoming in Spring 2025.