Shortlisted for the 2011 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, a finalist for the 2011 Asian American Literary Award for Poetry, and nominated for the McLaughlin-Esstman-Stearns First Novel Prize.
We Take Me Apart (Mud Luscious, 2009) was the first full-length title that MLP published. Prior to the release of WTMA, Mud Luscious was known primarily for its chapbooks and online literary journal. Now, the press boasts a large (and ever-growing) catalog, and I am proud to be among the many great names associated with it. We Take Me Apart is available for purchase from Mud Luscious Press, Amazon, and Powell's Books. Check out the very kind blurbs from my very favorite authors:
"There is no more perfect place to be than in Molly Gaudry's tender, dirt-floored novella, We Take Me Apart. Oh cabbage leaves, oh roses, oh orange-slice childhood grins: this book broke my heart. Its sad memory-tropes come from fairy tales and childhood books. With language, Gaudry is as loving and careful as one is with a matchbook . . . when wishing to set the whole world on fire.
--Kate Bernheimer, author of The Complete Tales of Merry Gold
"Molly Gaudry's debut evokes the spirit of iconic fairy tales that have transported readers for centuries. Her variations on these themes delineate the psychological journey from girlhood to womanhood. But We Take Me Apart is more than a retelling. In it, Gaudry reconstitutes the essence of what makes fairy tales compelling, and she does so imaginatively and with great attention to language, the earmarks of poetry."
--Christopher Kennedy, author of Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death
"In Molly Gaudry's novella in verse, We Take Me Apart, the ordinary becomes mythical, what may be autobiographical becomes fable, and simple lines or sentences ring with ominous music. Even the empty space between the lines seems to resonate with invisible narrative. A stunning debut."
--Richard Garcia, author of The Persistence of Objects
"Entwining the trance that is childhood around the hallucination that constitutes adulthood, Molly Gaudry's We Take Me Apart is a bewitching and carefully barbed tale. A cross between silence and a fairy tale, Gaudry's Beckettian narrative sews bright bits to near-faint whispers, slowly swaddling us in quiet and darkness."
--Brian Evenson, author of Fugue State
"Molly Gaudry's We Take Me Apart works "thread into lace" . . . especially vivid in this book-length work is the mother's entrance and exit, where the ragged lines swell and turn sonnet-like with love."
--Terese Svoboda, author of Weapons Grade
"Molly Gaudry's We Take Me Apart is a dazzleflage of a book. The stuttering disrupted language of this cubist concoction disappears before your ears, sinks into your eyes. This aggressive dress camouflage reweaves Gertrude Stein's rewoven grammar of worsted silk-screened gabardine into a fully ripped patois-ed pattern of stunning wonder."
--Michael Martone, author of Michael Martone