Famous Last Words
Overview
Winner of the 2007 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, Selected by John Yau Catherine Pierce's debut, Famous Last Words, is a love letter to life, poetry, and all things American. Beginning with a series of literal love poems (to the word "lonesome", to blank space, to doo-wop, to fear, etc.), Pierce whisks the reader on a cross-country road trip (both literally and figuratively) that takes a tangential spree into a series of genre films and ends with gallows humor in the re-imagining of the events surrounding the famous last words of icons like Billy the Kid, Marie Antoinette, Isadora Duncan, and Pancho Villa. From start to finish, Pierce's book is a delight to the senses, a playful, nostalgic dance that ends with the reader wanting more.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780975499078
- ISBN-10: 0975499076
- Publisher: Saturnalia Books
- Publish Date: January 2008
- Dimensions: 7.47 x 5.79 x 0.21 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.22 pounds
- Page Count: 80
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