Kissing Dead Girls |
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| Author:
| Gottlieb, Daphne |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9796636-5-9 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2008 |
| Publisher: | Counterpoint Press
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| Imprint: | Soft Skull Press |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $15.95 |
Book Description:
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Gertrude Stein's work is co-opted and re-seen in an attempt to unpack the relationship between love and war; Walt Whitman makes a command performance in dismembered bits of forced formal verse; and "The Exorcist" and "The Devil in Miss Jones" are sutured together in an attempt to locate the horror of desire. Fusing pornography and postfeminist theory, transcript and tell-all, these playful, penetrating poems and stories reach off the page in search of what it is to be known, both...
More DescriptionGertrude Stein's work is co-opted and re-seen in an attempt to unpack the relationship between love and war; Walt Whitman makes a command performance in dismembered bits of forced formal verse; and "The Exorcist" and "The Devil in Miss Jones" are sutured together in an attempt to locate the horror of desire. Fusing pornography and postfeminist theory, transcript and tell-all, these playful, penetrating poems and stories reach off the page in search of what it is to be known, both to the masses and to the "Other."