Kissing dead girls
By: Daphne Gottlieb.
Publisher: Soft Skull Press; Distributed by Publishers Group West; Soft Skull Pr
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Brooklyn NY; [Berkeley, Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781933368672
Description: "Fusing together pornography and postfeminist theory, transcript and tell-all, these poems and flash prose pieces reach off the page in search of what it is to be known - to the masses, to the Other, and to the self. Confessions of "private" moments with Josephine Baker, Amelia Earhart, Anne Frank, Frida Kahlo, JonBenet Ramsey, Sharon Tate, and Karen Carpenter attempt to relocate the larger-than-life back into the human. In this literal world of dead languages, a liver is received in the mail by an unexpecting recipient; a woman replaces the moon with her heart; Walt Whitman makes a command performance in dismembered bits of forced formal verse; and The Exorcists and The Devil in Miss Jones are sutured together in an attempt to unearth the true horror of desire and the ownership of a body in question. Using poetic inappropriacies, Kissing Dead Girls delves into historical paragons and examines what makes them such powerful dreamscapes among the mundane of the everyday."--Jacket.