Hell Yeah, Rachelle Toarmino's highly anticipated second collection of poems, is an intimate, ecstatic examination of the wonders of common speech. As automatic and wholehearted as a hell yeah between friends, the poems interject into various sites of the interpersonal-from a work email and doctor's office to a long-distance call and Yahoo! Answers rabbit hole-to measure the strange, mundane, and ancient ways we relate and respond to one another. In an alternating rhythm of logic and lyric, doubt and doubling down, Toarmino regifts plain and inherited language to arrive at a theory for familiarity and something like faith: how we know what we know and why we share what we know. With curiosity, generosity, oddball intellect, and charm, Hell Yeah captures that gut impulse to feel yes, say so, and sing it.

About the Author
Rachelle Toarmino is a poet from Niagara Falls, New York. She is the author of the poetry collections Hell Yeah (Third Man Books, 2025) and That Ex (Big Lucks Books, 2020), as well as several chapbooks, most recently My Science (Sixth Finch Books, 2025), winner of the 2024 Sixth Finch Chapbook Contest. Her work has appeared in Poets.org, Literary Hub, Electric Literature, American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, Southeast Review, The Slowdown, and Omnidawn, which awarded her its 2024 Single Poem Broadside Prize. She earned her MFA in poetry at UMass Amherst, where she received an Academy of American Poets Prize. She is also the founding editor in chief of the literary publishing project Peach Mag and the creator and lead instructor of Beauty School, an independent poetry school. She lives in Buffalo.

Reviews

"Hell Yeah is viral in the social neon ... Toarmino's got it." -Nick Sturm

"Rachelle Toarmino is a very gifted poet, and Hell Yeah is a stunning collection ... Assured, restless, generous, loving, funny, plaintive, and high-octane." -Peter Gizzi

"Commonplace, profound, and vibrant, these poems sing into the wild gap between our earthly selves and the wider world to prod at the interval between knowing and not knowing." -Hoa Nguyen

"What a fantastic book this is! I want everyone who loves poetry to read it!" -CAConrad

Book Information
ISBN 9798989908974
Author Rachelle Toarmino
Format Paperback
Page Count 64
Imprint Third Man Books
Publisher Third Man Books