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Title: Final Girl by Daphne Gottlieb ISBN: 1-887128-97-2 Publisher: Soft Skull Pr Pub. Date: October, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: If you were in her movie
Comment: In her new poetry collection, Daphne Gottlieb takes us by the hand and leads us through a horror movie of her own labyrinthine invention, through to the sharp relief of survival. Using American iconic figures and the mythologies of horror movies, she explores what it means to survive, whether it's love or captivity or the death of one's mother or our ubiquitous pop culture appetite. By the last poems, like the last girl alive at the end of a slasher flick, we are battered and renewed, with dirt under our nails and a fierce determination to live. "Final Girl" is an invigorating vision of strength and courage.
Rating: 5
Summary: poetry for the edge of your seat...
Comment: I've had the good fortune to see Daphne Gottlieb read twice, and each time I've found myself sitting on the edge of my seat in anticipation. She has that effect and is one of a handful of poets I know who manage to reproduce that on the page as well as on the stage and Final Girl is no exception. It is a stellar read, managing to be subtle or clear as needed.
In other words, this is poetry that makes me laugh when it should, moves me to honest tears and makes me think throughout. "My Mother Gets Dressed" in particular stands out as brutally beautiful read while "The Other Woman" is, to my ears and eyes, a stunning take on what could be adultery or maybe something much more profound.
Gottlieb is like that.
She's not an easy read. Although she's not an impenetrable writer, there is an effort involved in reading her work. Like most of my favorite poets, what you get out of her work is directly proportional to how much energy you put into reading it.
But much more to the point is this: ignoring the labels, this is simply good poetry that manages, by equal measure, to reveal and conceal everything needed to make the poem clear while leaving room for personal interpretation.
Read this if you're after a little blood in your poems.
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Title: Why Things Burn: Poems by Daphne Gottlieb ISBN: 1887128654 Publisher: Soft Skull Press, Inc. Pub. Date: 10 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Pelt by Daphne Gottlieb, Daphne Gottlieb ISBN: 1887237097 Publisher: Odd Girls Press Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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Title: The Beautiful : Collected Poems by Michelle Tea ISBN: 0916397890 Publisher: Manic D Press Pub. Date: 09 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title:Naked Lunch - Criterion Collection ASIN: B0000CDUT5 Publisher: Criterion Collection Pub. Date: 11 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $32.76 |
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Title: Please Don't Kill the Freshman : A Memoir by Zoe Trope ISBN: 0060529369 Publisher: HarperTempest Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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