Date: September 23rd 2008

Hello hello hello,

Firecracker and Audre Lorde Award-winning San Francisco performance poet Daphne Gottlieb, author of Soft Skull's new book Kissing Dead Girls and editor of Seal Press's new book Fucking Daphne (a collection of pieces, from difference contributors, about...well....fucking Daphne), will be in New York City this week and next. (She's headed up to Massachusetts after that.)

Sadie Magazine just reviewed Kissing Dead Girls . . . check it out:
http://sadiemagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=226&Itemid=50


Below is Daphne's schedule of events, and a little bit about her new books and the author herself.

1.
Daphne Gottlieb at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Friday, Sept 26, 10:00pm
236 East 3rd Street, New York
Daphne Gottlieb is featured at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe's "Friday Night Slam."
$10
www.nuyorican.org


2.
Daphne Gottlieb at Bluestockings
Sat, Sep 27, 7pm
172 Allen Street, New York
Daphne Gottlieb reads from her anthology "Fucking Daphne" with Diana Cage, Carol Turgeon, and Jamie Berger.
Free
www.bluestockings.com


3.
Daphne Gottlieb at Bar 13
Mon, Sep 29, 7pm
35 East 13th street, New York
Daphne Gottlieb performs at Bar 13's "Louder Arts Slam."
$6 ($5 for students)
www.louderarts.com


4.
Daphne Gottlieb at the Urbana Slam
Tue, Sep 30, 7pm
Bowery Poetry Club, NYC
Daphne Gottlieb at the Urbana Slam, Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery ( Bowery between Houston and Bleeker )
$7
www.bowerypoetry.com


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About the Author
San Francisco-based Performance Poet Daphne Gottlieb stitches together the ivory tower and the gutter just using her tongue. She is the editor of Fucking Daphne: Mostly True Stories and Fictions and Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader, as well as the author of the poetry books Kissing Dead Girls, Final Girl, Why Things Burn and Pelt. Her graphic novel Jokes and the Unconscious, featuring the artwork of Hothead Paisan's illustrator, Diane DiMassa, was called “brilliant and unsettling” by Publishers Weekly. Final Girl was the winner of the Audre Lorde Award in Poetry for 2003 from Publishing Triangle and was named one of The Village Voice's “Favorite Books of 2003.” Why Things Burn was the winner of a 2001 Firecracker Alternative Book Award (Special Recognition—Spoken Word) and was also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for 2001.
Gottlieb currently teaches at New College of California, and has performed and taught creative writing workshops around the country, from high schools and colleges to community centers. She received her MFA from Mills College.

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Kissing Dead Girls
Kissing Dead Girls is a kisstorical romangling that investigates myth, history, gender and states of being. Beginning with the province of legend, Kissing Dead Girls uses poetic inappropriacies to touch historical paragons and examine what touches us in them in vignettes casting the narrator as the lover of Josephine Baker, Amelia Earhart, Anne Frank, Frida Kahlo, Jonbenet Ramsey, Sharon Tate and Karen Carpenter. The "real" world fuses with the mundane as a liver is received in the mail by an unexpecting recipient; a woman replaces the moon with her heart; and a man finds himself a woman too dead to love. Gertrude Stein's work is co-opted and re-seen in an attempt to unpack the relationship between love and war; Walt Whitman makes a command performance in dismembered bits of forced formal verse; and "The Exorcist" and "The Devil in Miss Jones" are sutured together in an attempt to locate the true horror of desire. Fusing together pornography and postfeminist theory, transcrip
t and tell-all, these poems and stories reach off the page in search of what it is to be known, both to the masses and to the Other, even just one.


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Fucking Daphne
When Daphne Gottlieb first found herself the character in someone else's story she was intrigued; over time, as she appeared in more and more stories, she started to wonder about the implications of what was real and what wasn't. Did it matter that there were published stories of her having sex in bathrooms, vacant parking lots, on the balcony at a party in an old bordello? Did it matter whether or not they were true?
This question sparked the idea for Fucking Daphne, a collection that blurs the lines between reality and fiction and begs the question “who is the real Daphne?” A pill-popping wild child? A soft place to fall with a broken heart? A dreadlocked vixen?
Contributors include Hanne Blank, Stephen Elliot, Sarah Katherine Lewis, and Ariel Gore, who describe, watch, and engage with a character that is not Daphne Gottlieb; Daphne is a projection, a fantasy, a zeitgeist. We are all a multitude of people in bed. We are all Daphne.
Harnessing the playfulness of the hoax, the seductiveness of literature, and the edginess of the avant-garde, Fucking Daphne is unique in a culture hungry for sex, information, and most of all, understanding.

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Thanks for all the support.

Soft Skull Press


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