Queen for a Day

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There’s no predicting a Denise Duhamel poem, except that it might be about something you’ve never seen in a poem before: Mr. Donut, Rodney King, or nude beaches; Gertrude Stein, phone sex, or the Girl Scouts. Poems from<i>The Woman with Two Vaginas</i>, a book that was censored when it first appeared, are based on Inuit folklore.<i>How the Sky Fell</i> offers revisionist fairy tales, and the poems from<i>Kinky</i> are inspired by Barbie dolls. In her new work, Duhamel suffers postmodern angst when using the therapeutic I. Denise Duhamel has startled readers of American poetry with work that pirouettes on a tightrope above the personal and the political, the spoken word and the page, the irreverent and the sacred. Queen for a Day showcases poems from her five previous collections, along with new work.

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<b>Denise Duhamel</b> is a distinguished university professor in the MFA program at Florida International University in Miami. Her previous books include<i>Scald</i>,<i> Blowout</i>,<i>Ka-Ching!</i>,<i> Two and Two</i>,<i> Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems</i>,<i> The Star-Spangled Banner</i>,<i></i>and<i> Kinky</i>.<i></i>She is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts<i>.</i>

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