Description:
Re: Letter of Resignation From a Wannabe Club Kid
To all the eyes that have watched me dance from those of the moon to the boy in the corner at House of Yes:
Thank you for the wild nights and the water washing over me. Thank you for the moonlight and the laughter. I loved the lights of Paris and watching the sunrise in Brooklyn. Berlin, you were the night to me. I am leaving Earth now. I am moving to Orbit City. Maybe, I will be back sometime. But to be honest, I doubt it. The memories will sustain me. I will think of you in that little time between sleep and awake, in the space between the stars. You will be in my dreams. Your thumping music, your chaos, the feeling of euphoria. Goodnight to the clubs, to the beaches, to the full moon parties. Goodnight to the rooftops, to the jets, to the boats. Goodnight to the raves and the discos. I am off in my flying car to the future.
Stay ferocious,
Retired Wannabe Club Kid
Retired Wannabe Club Kid features an expansive collection of poems spanning decades and continents, all celebrating the power of music, parties, and the night.
Brief description: Rachel Turney is currently Jane Jetson, but was formerly a party monster.She is from the Midwest and resides in Colorado. She works in education and refugee services. Please connect with her on socials. Thank you for supporting this work. Life's a party. Go ahead and order the Champagne!; )
Review Quotes:
"In Retired Wannabe Club Kid, Rachel Turney takes us on a global tour, illuminating the club culture of the millennium and noughties.... Rachel speaks with strobelit clarity on themes of self-discovery, relationships, defiance, and resilience. This is poetry for nocturnal creatures, a collection with a thumping bassline that needs to be heard.... Grab your passport and dancing shoes; we're going to Berlin and Budapest via Brooklyn."
Paul Short
Editor of The Book Bag
Pushcart & Best of the Net nominated poet
"...a vulnerable, immersive poetry collection that takes the reader through Turney's life as a wannabe Club Kid.... The reader is thrust into her world of partying and adventure and shown what life after that looks like, too. It's a very reflective body of work, tracing a life shaped by nightlife, intimacy, and reinvention. Throughout the collection, Turney demonstrates a sharp command of language, using repetition, metaphor, and sensory detail."
Jhazzy Jhané
Editor-in-Chief Three Panels Press
Author of i should've known by the way you kissed me
"In this collection of poems, Rachel vividly weaves rhythm, memories, and freely beloved movement into a reverberating echo; a pulse of a beat that feels candid, raw, and passionate, like it is whispered straight into your ear. The poems in this collection are a series of testaments, invitations, and rebellions against a stagnant life and inanimate souls. Line after line, place after place, people after people, and song after song this book will make you feel like you are welcome and invited into connection not just with yourself and others, but to the wonders of our world, planet, and invention not seen with the naked eye, but felt within."
Mirjana M.
Creator of Suburban Witchcraft Magazine