Married to the Icepick Killer: A Poet in Hollywood
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (541 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375507116 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In Married to the Icepick Killer, Muske-Dukes explores the uniquely Southern Californian approach to poetry, including the random appearance of poems by Emily Dickinson and others on L. In Married to the Icepick Killer (the title is taken from Muske-Dukes’s wry, loving remembrance of her late husband’s exceedingly varied career), she provides a geographical (and commercial) context for cultural counterpoint and shows how it both complements and collides head-on with a poet’s sen
Cambridge Turn On Your Brain Pamela S. Being familiar with and a fan of Muske-Dukes' poetry and fiction--have you read "Dear Digby"? If not, why not?--I can't understand the brief, snide "criticism" of one of her customer reviewers. The essays in "Icepick" celebrate, disect and illuminate a cultural mish-mash of writers and writing history in California--and offer insight into the "writing scene" in LA, so closely knit as it is with movies, ocean, earthquak. engaging title, lively book Acerbic, funny, culturally aware and crackling with insight, as are Ms. Muske Dukes's poems and criticism. A Customer said I agree with Cambridge. The best part of this book is the title. Once inside it is a major disappointment - shallow, self-centered and, frankly, boring. STAY AWAY FROM THIS BOOK.
. By tackling the relationship of poetry (an "art made of consciousness") to Hollywood (a world made of images and illusions), Muske-Dukes puts a new spin on the familiar art's-connection-to-life inquiry. From Publishers Weekly The chair of the graduate writing program at USC, Muske-Dukes has written novels (Life After Death) and poetry collections (An Octave Above Thunder); her new offering is an odd medley of essays whose observations range from fresh and enlightening to pretentious and irritating. "Let Me Play the Lion Too" is an elegy to Dukes, a pastiche of interview excerpts, eulogies and snippets of their lives before and after they met. There are a few gem-like moments here, but Muske-Dukes's book ultimately fails to cohere as an argument or entertain as a memoir.Copyrig