Queen for a Day: Selected And New Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822957621)

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.

Author: Denise Duhamel
ISBN-10: 0822957620
ISBN-13: 9780822957621
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English
Published: 02/22/2001
Pages: 120
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 8.75h x 6.13w x 0.31d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/26/2001 pg. 86
Booklist 03/15/2001 pg. 1345