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Gottlieb, Daphne, 1968-

Kissing dead girls / Daphne Gottlieb.

Brooklyn : Soft Skull Press ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, ©2008.

138 pages ; 21 cm

"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.

Erotic poetry -- Women authors -- 21st century.

Includes bibliographical references.

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 -- 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.

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