Who's Going to Love the Dying Girl? by Bree Rolfe
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Who’s Going to Love the Dying Girl vibrates with anger, confusion, honesty, and anguish as an adult suffering from Cystic Fibrosis navigates love and loss in her failing body.
With a voice unwavering in its honesty, a reckless past and a foreshortened future collide in these poems. The conversational narratives grapple with relationships, loss, and chronic illness woven together with threads of music and pop culture references that make them relatable. Their vulnerability is tinged with a dry and introspective wit that cuts to the bone of the speaker’s darkest fears.
These poems confront the title question thrown at her one terrible night: who will love the dying girl?
Book Details
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 978-1-950730-77-3
Publication Date: September 30, 2021
With a voice unwavering in its honesty, a reckless past and a foreshortened future collide in these poems. The conversational narratives grapple with relationships, loss, and chronic illness woven together with threads of music and pop culture references that make them relatable. Their vulnerability is tinged with a dry and introspective wit that cuts to the bone of the speaker’s darkest fears.
These poems confront the title question thrown at her one terrible night: who will love the dying girl?
Book Details
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 978-1-950730-77-3
Publication Date: September 30, 2021
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Praise for WHO'S GOING TO LOVE THE DYING GIRL
“It all unravels, Bree Rolfe announces in the beginning of this confident, self-possessed collection. But these savvy, canny poems don’t concern themselves with re-knitting what’s already unknotted. Instead, they situate themselves right in the big, fat, fucked-up middle of the mess that life makes of us all. These poems are keenly observant, prescient, sardonic, and infused with some of the most unimpeachably glorious gallows humor I’ve ever encountered. But more importantly? They are honest and undisguised. At the center of Who’s Going to Love the Dying Girl is a heartbreakingly frank examination of that which makes us most human: tangible, mortal loss. Read this book now.”
Jill Alexander Essbaum author of Would-Land.
"Bree Rolfe is an effortlessly beautiful lyricist, and a storyteller of the highest order. The title of her debut collection is sad, and it’s plaintive, and that isn’t a bait and switch — her poems are, too. But beyond sadness and plaintiveness (already fine goals for poems, and Rolfe hits the notes perfectly) the pieces in this collection are something more rare: wholly true. And not like “based on a true story” true, but the sort of conceptual, difficult, real life truth that doesn’t have easy answers. With deftness, Rolfe makes poetic explorations of illness, abuse, codependency and loss as relatable and moving to readers as those of friendship, perseverance and love. This book is a gem. Read it immediately.”
Jessica Piazza author of Interrobang
“Bree Rolfe’s “Who’s Going To Love The Dying Girl” reminds us of our own mortality, while managing to feed us those heavy truths battered in a combination of sharp, dark humor, bittersweet nostalgia & a type of subtle but profound, omnipresent romance that I’ve rarely encountered in writing. Via reflections on youth, aging, love and loss , Rolfe manages to transport us back to defining moments of her history while firmly cementing her place as a middle aged woman living with “a child’s disease” of cystic fibrosis.
Though Rolfe acknowledges the inevitably of our deaths, I personally read this collection of poems as a celebration of the many phases of life we experience full of temporary joys and regrets.
I’m a rapper & songwriter who has built a small cult following off of a combination of words, sounds and feelings. Still, I’ll be the first to acknowledge that I don’t really know shit about what makes a “good poetry book.” What I do know is what I feel and “Who’s Going to Love the Dying Girl” makes me feel a lot.”
Ceschi Ramos, hip hop artist & owner of Fake Four Records