Blowout / Denise Duhamel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duhamel, Denise, author.

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love poetry.

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (102 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In Blowout, Denise Duhamel asks the same question that Frankie Lyman & the Teenagers asked back in 1954--'Why Do Fools Fall in Love?' Duhamel's poems readily admit that she is a love-struck fool, but also embrace the 'crazy wisdom' of the Fool of the Tarot deck and the fool as entertainer or jester. From a kindergarten crush to a failed marriage and beyond, Duhamel explores the nature of romantic love and her own limitations. She also examines love through music, film, and history--Michelle and Barak Obama's inauguration and Cleopatra's ancient sex toy. Duhamel chronicles the perilous cruelties of love gone awry, but also reminds us of the compassion and transcendence in the aftermath. In 'Having a Diet Coke with You,' she asserts that 'love poems are the most difficult poems to write / because each poem contains its opposite its loss / and that no matter how fierce the love of a couple / one of them will leave the other / if not through betrayal / then through death.' Yet, in Blowout, Duhamel fiercely and foolishly embraces the poetry of love."--from publisher's description

Contents:

How it will end

Duper's delight

If you really want to

Madonna and me

Mack

Tina and the Bruised Hearts

Takeout, 2008

Ritual

Recession commandments

Heartburn

An unmarried woman

Kindergarten boyfriend

Fourth grade boyfriend

My shortcut

Lower East Side boyfriend

The widow

Loaded

Cleopatra invented the first vibrator

My new chum

A different story

You're looking at the love interest

Or wherever your final destination may be

Courtship

Worst case scenario

And so

Old love poems

Expired

Little Icaruses

Violenza sessuale

My strip club

Victor

You don't get to tell me what to do ever again

Self-portrait in hydrogen peroxide

Proposal

Ten days before we meet, I dream you

I read

Long distance relationship

Sleep seeds

Having a Diet Coke with you

Ode to your eyebrows.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 8, 2014).

ISBN:

9780822978640

0822978644