I Feel Hands About My Neck

A Memopause

Susan Holbrook

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Coach House Books
09 July 2025

Memoirs; Women's health; Coping with personal problems; Dating, relationships, living together & marriage; Humour

Menopause: so many symptoms, so few remedies, so many years, so few heads-ups.

In Steamy, you'll find forty-five of the ever-expanding list of things people can encounter when going through The Change, including challenges (such as #4 Night Sweats and #21 Anxiety) and boons (such as #41 Individuation and #45 Fewer Shits).

In this raucous memoir, Susan Holbrook opens up an experience still constrained by cultural silences and myths. Steamy is honest, vulnerable, gross, and might just be the funniest book you've ever read about menopause, or anything else (see #37 Bloating).

If, at a certain stage of life, you find yourself sucker-punched by a sweaty fistful of symptoms you can't believe no one told you about, Steamy is for you

and for all the other hot-and-bothereds out there.

By: Susan Holbrook
Imprint: Coach House Books
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 177mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 181g
ISBN: 9781552455029
ISBN 10: 1552455025
Pages: 120
Publication Date: 09 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Susan Holbrook's poetry books are ink earl (Coach House 2021), Throaty Wipes (Coach House 2016), Joy Is So Exhausting (Coach House 2009), and misled (Red Deer 1999). Her most recent publication is Canon (Zed 2022), a chapbook featuring great works of literature translated through a calculator. She has also written a textbook, How to Read (and Write About) Poetry (Broadview Press 2021), and edited Intertidal: Daphne Marlatt--The Collected Earlier Poems (Talonbooks) and The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson: Composition as Conversation (Oxford UP). Her work has been nominated for numerous awards, including the Governor General's Award, the Trillium Book Award, the Trillium Award for Poetry, and the Pat Lowther Award. She teaches Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor. She lives in Leamington, Ontario.

Reviews for I Feel Hands About My Neck: A Memopause

""A refreshing, irreverent, no-effs-left-to-give exploration and meditation on what it means to grow older and go through menopause. This 'memopause' is a sparkling pause - a bawdy, revelatory, profane, and genius celebration of the body and bodies. I loved this book."" - Suzette Mayr, author of The Sleeping Car Porter Praise for the author: ""[A] profoundly grip-roarious collection showcasing the wordsmith's wry wit and wondrous willingness to turn notions of poetry and poetics ipso-nutzo topso-turvy in her seek-and-enjoy methodology.""- The Globe and Mail