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|  | | Fierce Consent and Other Poems
Poems
The voice of the of the Industrial Midwest | |  | | Guilty Pleasures: Indulgences, Addictions and Obsessions
Humorous essays on women's guilty pleasures.
| |  | | Island Universe: Essays and Entertainments
Collection of personal essays, and reviews of pop-culture phenomena such as Seinfeld, Lawrence Welk, self-help, Gloria Steinem, The Critic, Walt Disney
252 pages, Wingspan Press (Oct. 2007)
Selected from 30 years of published work, the 49 best prose pieces, including deeply personal essays and memoirs, reviews, and creative nonfiction. Notable: Essay "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You," all about Elvis's 1956 hit recording; "Seinfeld Sucks," written in 1993 before everyone came to hold that opinion; "Allen Ludden: An Appreciation" of the bespectacled '60s game-show host. Witty, sharp, political (essays on Serbia, Bosnia, poetry contests, Newt Gingrich, political correctness). |
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