| Title | : | Madame Deluxe |
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| ISBN | : | 1566891051 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781566891059 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 |
| Publication | : | First published September 1, 2000 |
| Awards | : | Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award Poetry (2001) |
Tenaya Darlington, Madame Deluxe, is a truthsayer with attitude and an agenda to boot. She’s a charmer, an alarmer, a kick in the pants, a hoot…it’s heartening to know what poetry can still do.—Lawson Fusao Inada
Madame Deluxe is all things loud and leopard print. Inspired by years of watching drag shows, Darlington evokes a persona who wanders the periphery of femininity. Striking out against artifice, staging her own myth, Madame Deluxe is a she-male Vesuvius.
Madame Deluxe is all things loud and leopard print. Inspired by years of watching drag shows, Darlington evokes a persona who wanders the periphery of femininity. Striking out against artifice, staging her own myth, Madame Deluxe is a she-male Vesuvius.
Madame Deluxe Reviews
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There are some strong poems in here, certainly, and I really appreciate the strength/bitchiness of the poet's voice--also her humor. i think it's a matter of a book hovering too closely around a theme, maybe--how many poems can i read about a glitzy girl in sequins and pink furry slippers? these poems are best when they show how that world can be superficial, or when it is contrasted with something other, as with the haiku series "The Student Asks the Poet Basho: What is Victoria's Secret?",
The bamboo
has two new shoots:
my lover's spaghetti straps. -
This book of poetry cannot be duplicated. Darlington uses humor to attack recent fads and utter nonsensical husbandrical appliances and overheating wives.
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A classic in the making.
