Bad Hobby

From Kingsley Tufts Award finalist Kathy Fagan comes Bad Hobby , a perceptive collection focused on memory, class, and might-have-beens.   In a working-class family that considers sensitivity a “fatal diagnosis,” how does a child grow up to be a poet? What happens when a body “meant to bend & breed” opts not to, then finds itself performing the labor of care regardless? Why do we think our “common griefs” so singular? Bad Hobby is a hard-earned meditation on questions like these—a dream