Daphne Gottlieb Libri

Exploring the intricate interplay between love and war, this collection reinterprets Gertrude Stein's work alongside Walt Whitman's fragmented verse. It juxtaposes horror and desire through the lens of "The Exorcist" and "The Devil in Miss Jones." By blending elements of pornography with postfeminist theory, these innovative poems and stories delve into the quest for understanding and connection, aiming to resonate with both the broader audience and the marginalized "Other."

This Lambda Literary Award nominee is a book of fierce, original poetry by one of San Francisco's leading poets and performers.Educated without being didactic, lyrical without being doggerel, passionate without being over the top and sexy without being prurient, Why Things Burn is everything poetry should be, without many of the things that poetry unfortunately is. These pieces work both in performance and on the page. They tackle sexuality, lesbian issues, rape, modern urban living, and the author's Jewish heritage, with a sometimes kooky but always sophisticated view of life.

Exploring themes of survival and trauma, this collection of poems features the "final girl," a figure drawn from slasher films, as she navigates dark desires and fears. With titles like Suture and Bride of Reanimator, the work blends elements of queer theory and pop culture, reflecting on captivity fantasies and the impacts of death from breast cancer. Daphne Gottlieb, an acclaimed poet and award winner, delivers a unique and provocative voice that challenges conventional narratives through a blend of humor and poignancy.

When Daphne Gottlieb first found herself the character in someone else s story she was intrigued; over time, as she appeared in more and more stories, she started to wonder about the implications of what was real and what wasn t. Did it matter that there were published stories of her having sex in bathrooms, vacant parking lots, on the balcony at a party in an old bordello? Did it matter whether or not they were true? This question sparked the idea for Fucking Daphne, a collection that blurs the lines between reality and fiction and begs the question who is the real Daphne? A pill-popping wild child? A soft place to fall with a broken heart? A dreadlocked vixen? Contributors include Hanne Blank, Stephen Elliot, Sarah Katherine Lewis, and Ariel Gore, who describe, watch, and engage with a character that is not Daphne Gottlieb; Daphne is a projection, a fantasy, a zeitgeist. We are all a multitude of people in bed. We are all Daphne. Harnessing the playfulness of the hoax, the seductiveness of literature, and the edginess of the avant-garde, Fucking Daphne is unique in a culture hungry for sex, information, and most of all, understanding."