Daisy
Poems

Rachel Feder (Author)

9780810148352, Northwestern University Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 April 2025

160 pages
17.8 x 12.7 x 1.1 cm, 0.454 kg

"Rachel Feder crafts a thoughtful, witty, and deeply compelling modern twist on a classic. Daisy, with new voice and agency, is now at the center of the narrative, and Feder, through her careful attention and vision, makes it feel like she's always belonged there. Gatsby's "green light" is now hers, is now ours, is now a guide glowing brilliantly beneath each poem, waiting for a young girl to return - to herself." - Shayla Lawz, author of speculation, n.

A narrative-poetic retelling of The Great Gatsby from the perspective of a 1990s teen poet

Daisy: Poems is a captivating and imaginative take on The Great Gatsby that puts F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 classic in the hands of a messy, ambitious, and possibly devious teen poet. From her privileged yet precarious perch in the roaring 1990s, Daisy navigates the expectations of her parents, boyfriend, and lover, alongside her own artistic ambitions, as she explores whether freedom is what she truly desires - and wonders if it's even possible. Rachel Feder puts a new spin on beloved characters: Jay, longtime and secret lover Nick, somewhat mysterious and always meddling cousin and Jordyn, best friend and companion in doomed relationships. A meditation on juvenilia, constructions of femininity, the purity myth, and canonical literary silences, Daisy is told in sparse, evocative verse that pulsates with youthful passion and offers a new elegy for our lost American dreams.

Erasure: The Great Gatsby, Chapter One
Just a Girl
The Nelson School
Jordyn
Sundays
Love
The Nelson School (II)
Kiss
Brunch
Waiting
Parties
Sage
Honey
Tragic Kingdom
Purity
Glasses Girl
Shift
Window
Daddy
Knocking
Chair
Liquidate
Chickens
The Phone Call
Chickens (II)
Date Night
Swim Hole
Heart
Love (II)
Mix
Creep
Nights
Daddy (II)
Window (II)
Liquidate (II)
The Party
Alone
Smoke
Ocean
Remix
Alley
Steps
Run
Just a Girl (II)
Daddy (III)
Pedestal
Stitch
Progress
Redundancy
Return
Tom
Yearbook
Torn
Polaroid
Semi-Charmed Life
We Don'
t Talk about Tom
Sequins
Slam
Power
Rejections
Date Night (II)
Plans
Plans (II)
Globe
The Last Night
Drive
Save Tonight
Punch
Going Up
Room
Drive (II)
Earthquake
Green Light
Swim Hole (II)
Hospital
Time
Purity (II)
Erasure: The Great Gatsby, Final Chapter
Just a Girl (III)