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Blood sugar / Nicole Blackman.
Van Pelt Library PS3552.L34258 B66 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blackman, Nicole.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 153 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Akashic, [2002]
- Summary:
- "Alt-rock diva, wise-cracking Blackman is not so much the poetic conscience of Gen X as its caustic avenger."-"Village Voice"
- "Blackman has a gift for turning nightmares into revelations."-"New York Times"
- "Blood Sugar "is a disturbing and evocative collection of new work and selected poems previously featured in Blackman's enormously popular chapbooks "Pretty, Sweet," and "Nice." Her work has appeared in five major anthologies including "Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Verses That Hurt," and "Poetry Nation." Blackman has performed on over twenty recordings, including collaborations with Golden Palominos, Recoil, KMFDM, and Scanner. She has also performed internationally and on NPR, MTV Radio, Spin Radio, and been featured on Salon.com. It is futile to resist her brutal accounts of obsession and beauty. So give in.
- Contents:
- Girls 9
- Kim 11
- Brooklyn 12
- Sessions 14
- Daughter 16
- Christian's Calling 19
- Lost 22
- Thirst 24
- Drown 26
- Holy 29
- To Julian (Who is Not Julian, But That is Enough) 32
- Gone 34
- Missing Natalie 35
- To the Boy Who Exploded, To the Boy Who Drowned, To the Boy Who Fell from Stars 38
- The Bad Shepard 41
- In the Movie Now 43
- The God of Sleep 47
- Rockaway 50
- Breath Control 52
- Backstage 54
- Chrome 56
- Belfast 58
- You Will 60
- It is in the Leaving 61
- A Loss Pushes Me to Hone My Defense 63
- Break 64
- Us 66
- Almost Him 68
- Caroline 70
- White 74
- Twilight 76
- Honey Half 78
- The Ambitions are 81
- You are Never Ready 85
- Dark Daughter 88
- God is in the Typewriter 95
- Elegy 97
- This Poem 102
- Sylvia 104
- Black Box 107
- Sniper 109
- Child 111
- Iris 112
- Liberation Barbie 114
- How Much 116
- Mother Waits 117
- Get Your Hands Off My Brother 120
- Curses 123
- Helicopters 125
- Cassandra 128
- What I Want for Christmas (and Other Holidays Where We Speak of Dead Men) 131
- Indictment 133
- Ride 137
- Metal Eye 140
- Victim 143
- All We Have 146
- Fifteen, She Learns 149.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York: Incommunicado, 2000.
- ISBN:
- 1888451343
- OCLC:
- 50318276
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