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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Hilarious look a the life of a working poet. Zippy, fun, and sad, all at once. A great trip. ( ) I was in the bookstore a few days ago when this book caught my eye. It was the title and since I'm a big Bukowski fan [a:Charles Bukowski|13275|Charles Bukowski|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/authors/1387554724p2/13275.jpg], I pulled it off the shelf. I had never heard of the author of this book, [a:Kim Addonizio|56892|Kim Addonizio|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/authors/1402742664p2/56892.jpg] before, but then again, there are a lot of authors I haven't heard of until I find one of their books. I liked the front cover (Kim is gorgeous) and opened it. If I want to keep on reading a book after the first few lines or paragraphs, I usually ended up buying it. I read the first few pages and bought it. This book didn't disappoint. It was funny & entertaining. I plan on reading some more of her books in the near future. Smart, sexy, passionate, brash, and gritty. At times hilarious, at times tender. Any fan of Addonizio’s poetry and fiction will love this memoir, too — from the joys and frustrations of a writing life to the love and heartbreak of just living. It’s all here in this mesmerizing essay collection. You won’t want to put it down. no reviews | add a review
"A dazzling, edgy, laugh-out-loud memoir from the award-winning poet and novelist that reflects on writing, drinking, dating, and more, Kim Addonizio is used to being exposed. As a writer of provocative poems and stories, she has encountered success along with snark: one critic dismissed her as "Charles Bukowski in a sundress." ("Why not Walt Whitman in a sparkly tutu?" she muses.) Now, in this utterly original memoir in essays, she opens up to chronicle the joys and indignities in the life of a writer wandering through middle age. Addonizio vividly captures moments of inspiration at the writing desk (or bed) and adventures on the road--from a champagne-and-vodka-fueled one-night stand at a writing conference to sparsely attended readings at remote Midwestern colleges. Her crackling, unfiltered wit brings colorful life to pieces like "What Writers Do All Day," "How to Fall for a Younger Man," and "Necrophilia" (that is, sexual attraction to men who are dead inside). And she turns a tender yet still comic eye to her family: her father, who sparked her love of poetry; her mother, a former tennis champion who struggled through Parkinson's at the end of her life; and her daughter, who at a young age chanced upon some erotica she had written for Penthouse. At once intimate and outrageous, Addonizio's memoir radiates all the wit and heartbreak and ever-sexy grittiness that her fans have come to love--and that new readers will not soon forget"-- No library descriptions found. |
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