Queen for a Day

Selected and New Poems

AvDenise Duhamel

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

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There’s no predicting a Denise Duhamel poem, except that it might be about something you’ve never seen in a poem before: Mr. Donut, Rodney King, or nude beaches; Gertrude Stein, phone sex, or the Girl Scouts. Poems from The Woman with Two Vaginas, a book that was censored when it first appeared, are based on Inuit folklore. How the Sky Fell offers revisionist fairy tales, and the poems from Kinky are inspired by Barbie dolls. In her new work, Duhamel suffers postmodern angst when using the “therapeutic I.” Denise Duhamel has startled readers of American poetry with work that pirouettes on a tightrope above the personal and the political, the spoken word and the page, the irreverent and the sacred. Queen for a Day showcases poems from her five previous collections, along with new work.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2001-02-22
Mått:152 x 222 x 9 mm
Vikt:200 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Pitt Poetry Series
Antal sidor:120
Förlag:University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN:9780822957621

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Denise Duhamelis a distinguished university professor in the MFA program at Florida International University in Miami. Her previous books include Second Story, Scald, Blowout, Ka-Ching!, Two and Two, and Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems.She is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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I have the pleasure of knowing Denise Duhamel, and I have the pleasure of being familiar with many of the contexts in many of her poems. But her poems are almost always — and delightfully so — feel fictive to me. Their tones and slants enter materials in unsuspecting ways. But I think the poems feel fictive for me mainly because they are so authentic. They dream. They politicize. They create possibilities which make me want to read and write and live. That the poems often make me laugh or wonder is pure gravity.