I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive by Lynn Melnick

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I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive by Lynn MelnickWhen everything fell apart for Lynn Melnick, she went to Dollywood. It was perhaps an unusual refuge. The theme park, partly owned by and wholly named for Dolly Parton, celebrates a country music legend who grew up in church and in poverty in rural Tennessee. Yet Dollywood is exactly where Melnicka poet, urbanite, and daughter of a middle class Jewish familyneeded to be. Because Melnick, like the musician she adores, is a survivor. In this bracing

"There's a persistent sensation in WANT FOR LION of being yoked to a mind in full stream

the pain of postpartum depression

grew up along the Space Coast of Florida

placed side by side with the Spanish originals

Dreams of Diaspora grapples with questions of place

And for an indigenous person

White writes of race

due in part to the racism they experienced in the US

author of Boneshepherds

and the working day

She is a poet who reports the devastating news

to months of simultaneous quarantine and protest