Falsehood

by Emily Brandt

Poetry. Women's Studies. A study of the ways we replicate and resist oppressive social structures, Emily Brandt's FALSEHOOD is a biting, earnest, and sometimes playful reckoning. Stuck in the suburbs of White America, Brandt's speaker scratches the surface of the dreamy veneer and finds worlds of repression, oppression and hidden abuses. Such violences are steeped in a normalcy these poems resist. With remarkable precision, Brandt's potent debut offers a searing meditation on the forces that would control us.

Genres: Poetry

104 pages, Paperback

Published January 21, 2020

About the author

Emily Brandt is a poet of Sicilian, Polish & Ukrainian descent. She’s the author of Falsehood, a co-founding editor of No, Dear, curator of the LINEAGE series at Wendy’s Subway, and member of Temp. Files, a video art cooperative and digital residency. She aims to cultivate community, creativity, mindfulness and authenticity across contexts - work that began by advocating for sexual assault survivors, continued through 20 years teaching and coaching in the NYC Department of Education, and extends across many other teaching and community contexts, including in her coaching work and Open Language writing workshops. She earned a BA in Psychology, Gender Studies, and English from Boston University, an MS Ed from Pace University, and an MFA in Poetry from New York University, where she facilitated the Veterans Writing Workshop. She’s been in residence at Saltonstall and Elsewhere, an Emerging Poets Fellow at Poets House, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for Poetry Well and Powerhouse. Her poetry, and occasional prose and interdisciplinary work, appears periodically in journals, anthologies, and digital platforms. She’s based in New York, between Brooklyn (Lenape) and Speonk (Shinnecock).