Peggy Sue Messed Up... and Other Poems

96 pp. Dark and dangerous content wrapped in pink taffeta and topped with a tiara. You can take the girl out of suburbia, but what happens when you take suburbia out of the girl? In her first collection of poetry, Susan Cossette Eng uses her own memories to take us behind the curtain to see - and feel - what it means to be a woman in 21st century America. Though the experiences are uniquely hers, you can't help but feel there is some universal truth that is being exposed as the emotions of rage, confusion, desire, disillusionment and pain come tumbling off the page - sometimes agonizingly so.