Famous Last Words

Name: Famous Last Words
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ISBN: 9780975499078

ISBN-10: 0975499076

ISBN-13: 9780975499078

Edition: N/A

Authors: Catherine Pierce

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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. "Catherine Pierce has…

Book details

List price: $14.00
Publisher: Saturnalia Books
Publication date: 3/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 80
Size: 5.50" wide x 7.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English



Love Poem to Sinister Moments


Love Poem to the Word Lonesome


Love Poem to a Blank Space


Love Poem to America


Love Poem to the Phrase Let's get coffee


Love Poem to Doo-Wop


Love Poem to Longing


Love Poem to Fea


Project Yourself Here


Domesticity


Cross-Country Song


While You Sleep, I Watch Myself Die


Advice on Travel


This Is Not an Elegy


Fat Tuesday


Retrospect


Invention


Apostrophe to the First Gray Hair


Adolescence


We Are in Love


Memphis


Epithalamium


Endearments


Why You Love the Annoyances in Your Dreams


The man in the photograph


In Which I Imagine Myself Into a Western


In Which I Imagine Myself Into a Slasher Flick


In Which I Imagine Myself Into a Film Noir


In Which I Imagine Myself Into a David Lynch Movie


The Poem I Cannot Write For You


The Heaven I Hope For


Graceland


Nor Hell a Fury


Evolution


Postcards Nos. 1-6


Conscience


Perseids


Instinct


Ubi Sunt


"Quien es?"


"Well, gentlemen, you are about to see a baked Appel."


"Pardonnez-moi, monsieur."


This is funny."


"Goodbye, my friends! I go to glory."


"Stopped."


"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."