Fat Daisies

Fat Daisies explores whiteness and womanhood in the age of curated clickbait. These devastating, dead-on poems reckon with privilege, selfhood, and feminism, roping in Sylvia Plath and Kim Kardashian for the ride. Murphy doesn't give us any answers to the hard questions she asks, but Fat Daisies' examination is fierce and funny enough to make you find your own. "What does it mean to be a young woman in an age of heavily self-curated and performative social media? What does it mean to have privilege, to have luxury? How does a poet talk about “whiteness”? Murphy explores all of this in a fabric woven out of Anthropologie, Internet comments, bikini selfies, mean girls, Netflix, body weight, sugar-slicked hair, and ovaries. Murphy continues the road trip that began in Pretty Tilt as she tackles how femininity factors into the digital age."