Fuck Your Darlings - PRINTED

This book is NSFW

This is the printed version. It will typically ship within 2-3 business days and is shipped via media mail.

release date September 25th, 2020

Vulnerability and honesty take different forms, but in their first collection of poetic work since 2017, Devin Devine bares every truth they have to offer.

Not only including their latest works of poetry, but also featuring a set of nude photos taken of Devin in 2018, "fuck your darlings" is 56 pages that will wade you into intimacy and leave you thirsty for more. With little to hide and so much to give, Devin's newest poems confront grief, heartbreak, and their journey to recovery. Known for their comedic authenticity and delightful vulgarity, this collection also celebrates new love, sex, and the freedom gained from masturbating while using cruise control.

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Fuck Your Darlings is my favorite road trip song, is superstitiously beautiful, is a respite, is the old flame waiting for you on the other end of this highway. The engine of Devin Devine's poems is both ravishing and devastating us at once. At the narrator's funeral, "Everyone is yelling puns at the flowering pile of dirt they insisted on claiming grave." We arrive to the story at the end of many others, a great love gone, when what is left is the going, and a glorious going it is. Going back in the light of the morning after, or years after, to a vocabulary of motel rooms, bathtubs, school bleachers, and going forward into the uncertainty of choosing one's own pleasure. "Across the country, my going is a content religion." Through their poems, Devin Devine makes a god of desire itself, illuminates a world for us with diner neon and the shine of wet fingers. The poets' words are fiercely biting, but invite the audience, the readers, the ghosts, to bite back.
- Sara Mae, author of Priestess of Tankinis