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Kissing Dead Girls.
Title:
Kissing Dead Girls.
Author:
Gottlieb, Daphne.
ISBN:
9781593763282
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (145 pages)
Contents:
Table of Contents -- Mouth-to-Mouth -- How to Make a Dead Girl -- Destroyer of All Things -- Pilot Light -- Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria -- Re-Agent -- Undressing Josephine in Public -- Undressing Josephine in Private -- The It Girl -- How to Make a Dead Girl Float -- Everything She Asks of Me -- Suicide Artist -- Lucky in Love -- Animal Magnetism -- Letters to a Dead Reader -- Whitman's Sampler: Killing the Father of Free Verse -- Gertrude Reflects on Sex -- Elemental -- Shining the Boy -- The Hit Parade -- Stockholm Syndrome -- Waxing -- Incisive -- Vocabulary Lesson SIx -- Torch Song for You -- It's Not Sexy When You Do it Like That -- Twelve Love Words and Two Words of Despair After Pablo Neruda -- Sharp -- If Music Be the Fruit of Love -- Why Can't the English Teach Their Children How to Speak? -- The Nation-State of Her Body -- Our Lady of the Other -- Signed, Sealed, Delivered -- The Use of Recent World Events Considered -- There's No Place -- Janis Joplin Walks Home Alone Late at Night -- Because Property Crimes are Not Defined as Acts of Violence -- Carry-On -- Speed Times Distance -- Roe Parasites -- Frequently Asked Questions -- Self-Possessed -- Heavy the Head -- Dear John [Undated] (Postcards to My Rapist) -- Kiss Someone When You Hear of the Woman with the Gun and You Will Make Magic -- Banking the Break -- Edge Play -- On the Difference Between Dead Girls and Ghosts -- The Whole World is Singing -- Oh Juliet -- Casualty -- Wild Kingdom -- Cherchez la Femme -- Introducing Linda Lovelace as Herself -- Re Dress -- American Gothic -- Love Poem After Aretha Franklin -- The Real Deal -- Someone Should Write Me a Love Poem but I'm Stuck Doing it Myself -- Sentenced -- Glass Onion -- Two Women -- Organic -- Calliope -- Living Legend -- Coney Island Baby -- Maps and Legends.
Abstract:
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 to the masses and to the "Other.".
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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