Title:
Real phonies and genuine fakes : poems / Nicky Beer.
ISBN:
9781571315397
Personal Author:
Edition:
First Edition.
Publication Information:
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2022.
©2022
Physical Description:
81 pages ; 22 cm
Awards Note:
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award (Bisexual poetry / 2023)
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 -- Benevolent sisterhood of inconspicuous fabricators -- Magicians at work -- Sawing a lady in half -- Great something -- Plagiarist -- Notes on the villages of liars -- Excerpts from The Updated Handbook to Mendacity -- Stereoscopic man -- Self-portrait while operating heavy machinery -- 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 -- Poet who does not believe in ghosts -- Because my grief was a tree -- Specimen #17 -- Revision.
Summary:
"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." -- Provided by publisher.
OCLC Number:
on1259295297
Availability:
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