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Pelt (1999)
Using the language of the everyday to express the extraordinary, poet Daphne Gottlieb searches for the truths of human experience and finds those truths in relationships, childhood and a woman on fire. Pelt is a document of survival in a slaughterhouse culture. From preying to praying, the loss of innocence and the innocence of loss, and the most cruel and unusual stuff of all — love — these poems represent a strong, fresh voice in contemporary poetry. -
Why Things Burn: Poems (2001)
For many performance poets, the simple act of writing down the words can kill a poem's spirit and energy. Not so with Daphne Gottlieb. In In Why Things Burn, Gottlieb tackles sexuality, lesbian issues, rape, urban life, and a host of other topics with the same power of her live performances. Includes photos of the author in performance. -
Final Girl (2003) -- Finalist, 2003 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry
The last girl left alive in the classic horror flick — traces the history of the other and the femme fatale in a sequence of poems and stories that display the verve and wit readers have come to expect from Gottlieb. In Final Girl, Gottlieb is the survivor, the one who remains to tell the story: what was done to others, what was done to her, what might yet be done to her. In poems... Gottlieb identifies and articulates the personal and social desires, fears and traumas out of which pop culture is made... and then she feeds pop culture back to itself. Though the slasher flick is central, Gottlieb finds resonances in sources as disparate as the early American captivity narrative, queer and feminist film theory, and her own mother's death. Through such iconic American figures such as Mary Rowlandson and Patricia Hearst, Gottlieb delineates the ways in which we're betrayed by our cultural fantasies about abduction, gender, literature, pleasure and transgression — and, in so doing, synthesizes the death and life of the American female.
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Bottoms Up: Writing About Sex (2004)
Writing About Sex is a collection of writing about desire. The stories are not straight-up sexual narrations but pieces, poems, and stories that explore the concept and manifestation of desire itself. Rather than merely describing the physical acts of sex, these writings limn the impetus, experiences, thoughts, and feelings that drive desire. The stories in the collection are varied but share a fascination with breaking down conventional conceptions of gender in favor of a wider view of sexuality. They include an examination of iconoclastic sexuality (musing on what it would be like to have sex with James Dean and like James Dean), finding the apex of desire in Lenny Kaye's sweat-soaked leather pants after a Patti Smith Group show, genderqueer cruising, the connection between sex and loss, and more. Contributors include Eileen Myles, Lori Selke, Michelle Tea, Patrick Califia, Red Jordan Arobateau, Robert Gluck, and Victoria Brownworth