It Is Going To Be A Good Year

by Sasha Fletcher

Bank robberies. Kissing. Presidential announcements. Suits. In his first full-length book of poetry, Sasha Fletcher chronicles the domestic lives of two people living with ghosts, certain doom, an unidentifiable number of children, and each other. Funny and disastrous, tragic and optimistic, It Is Going To Be A Good Year is the sort of love story that you only hear about when you listen, very carefully, to the kind of things you are too terrified to ask for.

Genres: Poetry

100 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2016

About the author

Sasha Fletcher is the author of, most recently, the novel Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World. He lives in Brooklyn.

Reviews

[Tracy O'Neill · Rating 5 out of 5]

Taut but wandering, full of wit and weird imagination. These poems have heat just below the surface and crack open in delightful turns.

[Kevin Thomas James Atteridg · Rating 5 out of 5]

When I grow up I want to be Sasha Fletcher.

[Tobias · Rating 4 out of 5]

A host of surreal recurring imagery, and some of the best titles out there. Really enjoyable.

[Ian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just imagine Sasha reading it in the same way he calls raffle tickets.

[Benjamin Niespodziany · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gallons of milk, 500 children, ghosts, make outs, the ends of the world (series), and even some marching bands. The energy in this collection is highly contagious. One to keep in your backpack.

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a charming collection that draws out the connections between (all-consuming) love and violence. My only critique is that the poems kind of all blend into each other, which is always my experience of poems that rely on stream of consciousness and wild juxtaposition, so it's hard to grab onto individual poems in the mix. Though I did really appreciate the recurring motifs--the five hundred children, the movies, the ghosts--and they did a lot of work to make this feel like a deliberate collection and not just one fun game of "what will I say next."

[Austin Rory · Rating 5 out of 5]

I remembered how much I like Sasha’s writing so I ordered this book, read it in one sitting, and loved it