I Feel Hands About My Neck: A Memopause

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Hot (flash) takes, symptom by symptom, of The Change: I Feel Hands About My Neck is a raucous menopause memoir.

In 2006, Nora Ephron breached a taboo with her bestselling menopause book, I Feel Bad About My Neck. Five years later, Shari Graydon published a feminist response, an anthology of essays entitled I Feel Great About My Hands. Now Susan Holbrook completes the trilogy with I Feel Hands About My Neck. Exploring the cascading list of symptoms one can potentially face when going through the change (including 2. Hot Flashes, 21. Anxiety, and 45. Fewer Shits), Holbrook composes a comic memoir that opens up an experience still constrained by cultural silences and myths.

I Feel Hands About My Neck is honest, vulnerable, gross, and might just be the funniest book you've ever read about menopause, or anything else (see 37. Bloating).

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Susan Holbrook's poetry books are ink earl (Coach House 2021), Throaty Wipes (Coach House 2016), Joy Is So Exhausting (Coach House 2009), and misled (Red Deer 1999). Her most recent publication is Canon (Zed 2022), a chapbook featuring great works of literature translated through a calculator. She has also written a textbook, How to Read (and Write About) Poetry (Broadview Press 2021), and edited Intertidal: Daphne Marlatt--The Collected Earlier Poems (Talonbooks) and The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson: Composition as Conversation (Oxford UP). Her work has been nominated for numerous awards, including the Governor General's Award, the Trillium Book Award, the Trillium Award for Poetry, and the Pat Lowther Award. She teaches Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor. She lives in Leamington, Ontario.