Madame Deluxe : poems / Tenaya Darlington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Darlington, Tenaya, 1971-

Series:

National poetry series

The National poetry series

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

78 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : Coffee House Press ; Saint Paul, MN : Available to the trade through ... Consortium Book Sales, [2000]

Summary:

Tenaya Darlington, Madame Deluxe, is a truthsayer with attitude and an agenda to boot. She's a charmer, an alarmer, a kick in the pants, a hootb?&it's heartening to know what poetry can still do.-Lawson Fusao Inada "Madame Deluxe" is all things loud and leopard print. Inspired by years of watching drag shows, Darlington evokes a persona who wanders the periphery of femininity. Striking out against artifice, staging her own myth, Madame Deluxe is a she-male Vesuvius. Tenaya Darlington is the managing editor for "Beloit Fiction Journal." Her work has appeared in "Scribner's Best of the Fiction Workshops 1998" and "In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal. Madame Deluxe" was selected by Lawson Fusao Inada for the National Poetry Series. Darlington lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

Contents:

Sequinned, Size 16

The Birth of Madame Deluxe 15

On the Catwalks of Desire 16

350-lb. Poem 18

Madame Deluxe's Adult Video & All-Nite Deli 19

Aphrodite's Identity Crisis 21

Venus, I Don't Need You 23

Madame Deluxe's Mail-Order Brides 24

Academic Tectonics 28

Pleather Math

From Oolong to Oompah 33

Madame Deluxe's Guide to the Pleasures of Leather 34

Menona Gives Me Vertigo 35

Trend-Caster 36

To Taste 38

Madame Deluxe's Marriage Manual and Instruction Guide for the Year 2000 39

Anatomy of Melancholy 41

Deluxe Creations 44

Portrait with No Shortage of History 46

A Student Asks the Poet Basho: What Is Victoria's Secret? 47

Tar & Feather 48

The Dracula Orchid 49.

ISBN:

1566891051

OCLC:

44270283