"With an energetic eye, Nicky Beer thumbs through our collective history books--and her personal one, too--in an effort to chart the line between playful forms of farce and those that are far more insidious"--
"With an energetic eye, Nicky Beer thumbs through our collective history books--and her personal one, too--in an effort to chart the line between playful forms of farce and those that are far more insidious"--
Nicky Beer is the author of Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes. She is a bi/queer writer, and the author of two other collections of poems, The Octopus Game and The Diminishing House, both winners of the Colorado Book Award. Her awards include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a MacDowell Fellowship, a fellowship and a scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, a Mary Wood Fellowship from Washington College, a Discovery/The Nation Award, and a Campbell Corner Prize. Her poems have been published in Best American Poetry, Poetry, The Nation, the New Yorker, the Southern Review, the Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. She is an associate professor at the University of Colorado - Denver, where she co-edits the journal Copper Nickel.
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Table of Contents Drag Day at Dollywood Self-Portrait as Duckie Dale Cathy Dies Two-Headed Taxidermied Calf Etymology Still Life with Pork Livers Rolled Like Handkerchiefs Thorn Ostinato Marlene Dietrich Plays Her Musical Saw for the Troops, 1944 Forged Medieval German Church Fresco with Clandestine Marlene Dietrich The Benevolent Sisterhood of Inconspicuous Fabricators The Magicians at Work Sawing a Lady in Half The Great Something The Plagiarist Notes on the Village of Liars Excerpts from The Updated Handbook to Mendacity The Stereoscopic Man Self-Portrait While Operating Heavy Machinery The Demolitionists Small Claims Courtship Exclusive Interview Marlene Dietrich Meets David Bowie, 1978 Marlene Dietrich Considers Penicillin, 1950 Mating Call of the Re-Creation Panda Scat Heart in Turmeric Dear Bruce Wayne, Elegy Kindness/Kindling Juveniles Nessun Dorma The Poet Who Does Not Believe in Ghosts Because my grief was a tree Specimen #17 Revision Notes Acknowledgments
Table of Contents Drag Day at Dollywood Self-Portrait as Duckie Dale Cathy Dies Two-Headed Taxidermied Calf Etymology Still Life with Pork Livers Rolled Like Handkerchiefs Thorn Ostinato Marlene Dietrich Plays Her Musical Saw for the Troops, 1944 Forged Medieval German Church Fresco with Clandestine Marlene Dietrich The Benevolent Sisterhood of Inconspicuous Fabricators The Magicians at Work Sawing a Lady in Half The Great Something The Plagiarist Notes on the Village of Liars Excerpts from The Updated Handbook to Mendacity The Stereoscopic Man Self-Portrait While Operating Heavy Machinery The Demolitionists Small Claims Courtship Exclusive Interview Marlene Dietrich Meets David Bowie, 1978 Marlene Dietrich Considers Penicillin, 1950 Mating Call of the Re-Creation Panda Scat Heart in Turmeric Dear Bruce Wayne, Elegy Kindness/Kindling Juveniles Nessun Dorma The Poet Who Does Not Believe in Ghosts Because my grief was a tree Specimen #17 Revision Notes Acknowledgments
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