God I Feel Modern Tonight

<p><b><i>‘I ask my therapist why should I want to grow / she says I will suffer less / what is she trying to prove?’</i></b></p><p><b>Tragicomic verses from the award-winning comedian and millennial renaissance woman.</b><Br></p><p>Catherine Cohen, the one-woman stand-up chanteuse who has electrified the downtown NYC comedy scene in her white go-go boots, has been posting poignant, unfiltered poems on social media since before Instagram was a thing. A self-proclaimed self-obsessed millennial on the prowl with her beaded bag, she ponders guys who call you dude after sex, English-major dreams, true love during the pandemic, and other weighty matters in these captivating short lyrics. 'I wish I were smart instead of on my phone,' Cohen confides; 'heartbreak, / when it comes, and it will come / is always new.'</p><p>A Dorothy Parker for our time, a Starbucks philosophe with no primary-care doctor, this poet and rising megastar is a welcome new breed of everywoman – a larger-than-life best friend, who will say all the outrageous things we think but never say out loud ourselves.</p><p><b>'Cat’s poems are equally hilarious as they are profound. Her lines morph from being quite absurd to deeply meaningful, a trick only she can master. A genre-defining original!' <i>Amelia Dimoldenberg</i></b></p><p><b>‘Catherine is a once-in-a-generation comic genius who makes the cringey perils of modern life seem both glamorous and survivable! She also looks amazing in white boots.’ <i>Jack Rooke, creator of </i>Big Boys</b></p><p><b>‘Does anyone chronicle and lampoon millennial ennui as hilariously, as vulnerably, and as bitingly as Cat Cohen? NFW TBH. I’m a stan!’ <i>Alan Cumming, author of</i> Not My Father’s Son</b></p>