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Final Girl the last girl left alive in the syntax of the "slasher" traces the history of the femme fatale in a sequence of poems and stories that display the verve and wit readers have come to expect from Gottlieb. In Final Girl Gottlieb is the survivor, the one who remains to tell the story: what was done to others, what was done to her, what might yet be done to her.
Sexy and tart, dark and comic, low-down and high-hearted poems such as Suture, Slash, Vamp, Bride of Reanimator and The Babysitter Gottlieb identifies and articulates the desires, fears, traumas, both personal and social, out of which pop culture is made
and then she feeds pop culture back to itself.
Though the slasher flick is central, Gottlieb finds resonances in sources as disparate as the early American captivity narrative, queer and feminist film theory, and her own mother’s death from breast cancer. Through such iconic American figures as Mary Rowlandson, Marilyn Monroe and Patty Hearst, Gottlieb delineates the ways in which we’re betrayed by our cultural fantasies about abduction, gender, literature, pleasure, and transgressionand, in so doing, synthesizes the death and life of the American female.
- Sales Rank: #1455067 in Books
- Brand: Brand: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Published on: 2003-09-22
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .31" w x 6.00" l, .40 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 109 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
From Publishers Weekly
Hollywood horror, postpunk feminism, spoken-word energy, true-crime reportage, vampire lesbians and modernist cut-up techniques collide and explode in this exciting third effort from Bay Area performance poet Gottlieb (Why Things Burn). The "final girl" in horror movies is the last one alive, who confronts the killer; here, the series of poems called "final girl" (numbered I through X) ties together a collection of fiery short works as canny as they are sophisticated and as sophisticated as they are angry. Gottlieb sometimes offers short-lined monologues that cry out for performance: "in a name" warns "woe for the man/ who can't tell/ a kiss from a hiss." Yet she also shines in cut-up, collage and multivocal works, assembling them from newspaper accounts of hate crimes, from interviews, from letters and diaries; these latter works recall the technique and the attitude that fans love in the late Kathy Acker. The prose poem "Liability" comments strikingly on transgender issues: a memorable epigram (unprintable here) tells "the frightening truth about desire," while longer poems offer "the predawn mornings/ of lonely postcosmopolitan cities," where Generation Y resists sexual violence and tries to discover what its choices are. "I abducted myself at gunpoint," Gottlieb explains in another daring prose poem-"I am the X that marks my spot." "See me as part/ of a resistance/ movement," she asks elsewhere; and with her political appeal, her technical sophistication, her frequent touring (which includes prestigious rock festivals) and her youth following, a wide range of readers should line up to do just that.
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Review
"Gottlieb has a wickedly smart sense of humor, edged with the pain human fallibility. . . . Clever, fun, and deep all at once."
About the Author
San Francisco-based Performance Poet Daphne Gottlieb stitches together the ivory tower and the gutter just using her tongue. She has been widely published in journals and anthologies including nerve.com, Exquisite Corpse and the forthcoming Short Fuse: A Contemporary Anthology of Global Performance Poetry.
Besides anchoring two national performance poetry tours, Gottlieb has also appeared across the country with the Slam America bus tour and with notorious all-girl wordsters Sister Spit. She has performed at festivals coast-to-coast, including South by Southwest, Bumbershoot, and Ladyfest Bay Area.
She is the poetry editor of the online queer literary magazine Lodestar Quarterly, as well as Other Magazine and is a co-organizer of the all-girl spoken word festival debuting in September 2002, ForWord Girls.
Gottlieb has also 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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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
No Time for Heros, She's Saving Herself
By Little Old Me
When Daphne Gottlieb speaks, you have no choice but to listen.
I purchased FINAL GIRL at a literary reading during Chicago's 2004 Printers Row Book Fair. The poetry is centered around the survivor of a teen-slasher/horror flick, the one who has lost all of her friends along the way and the only one capable of defeating the killer. I finished the entire book that evening - this is the first poetry book I've been able to read from cover to cover in one sitting.
Daphne's poetry is firey and abbrassive, centering on the colorful cast of characters that inhabit the world of horror movies. She gives well-rounded three-dimensional voices to the stereotypes, builds up the greater story behind the small details and is willing to spit back in any adversary's face despite the consequences. She gives a reason and a purpose to the promsicuous girl who is always killed first in the poem, "Slut". She relates these stereotypical characters to their place in the real world and the violence they encounter from hate crimes, muggings and illness. Many of the poems relate to the death of Daphne Gottlieb's mother, as she occasionally writes about the Final Girl's desperate attempts to save her parents from the inevitable.
I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in performance prose and the theater of the bizarre. There is a very thick line between fictional suspense/horror and reality, but Gottlieb successfully blurs that line. She describes a vampire culture in all senses and scribes an aggressive plan of action against the dangers of a world, city-life and other human beings, while at the same time, displaying one's need for companions and other survivors. The writing is energetic and can cause a smirk as well as a horrified gasp. This is a must-have!
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
poetry for the edge of your seat...
By Chris B
I've had the good fortune to see Daphne Gottlieb read twice, and each time I've found myself sitting on the edge of my seat in anticipation. She has that effect and is one of a handful of poets I know who manage to reproduce that on the page as well as on the stage and Final Girl is no exception. It is a stellar read, managing to be subtle or clear as needed.
In other words, this is poetry that makes me laugh when it should, moves me to honest tears and makes me think throughout. "My Mother Gets Dressed" in particular stands out as brutally beautiful read while "The Other Woman" is, to my ears and eyes, a stunning take on what could be adultery or maybe something much more profound.
Gottlieb is like that.
She's not an easy read. Although she's not an impenetrable writer, there is an effort involved in reading her work. Like most of my favorite poets, what you get out of her work is directly proportional to how much energy you put into reading it.
But much more to the point is this: ignoring the labels, this is simply good poetry that manages, by equal measure, to reveal and conceal everything needed to make the poem clear while leaving room for personal interpretation.
Read this if you're after a little blood in your poems.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
If you were in her movie
By A Customer
In her new poetry collection, Daphne Gottlieb takes us by the hand and leads us through a horror movie of her own labyrinthine invention, through to the sharp relief of survival. Using American iconic figures and the mythologies of horror movies, she explores what it means to survive, whether it's love or captivity or the death of one's mother or our ubiquitous pop culture appetite. By the last poems, like the last girl alive at the end of a slasher flick, we are battered and renewed, with dirt under our nails and a fierce determination to live. "Final Girl" is an invigorating vision of strength and courage.
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