I Married the Icepick Killer
A Poet in Hollywood| By: | Carol Muske-Dukes |
| Publisher: | Independent Publishers Group (Chicago Review Press) |
| Print ISBN: | 9781480484818 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781480484870 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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A vibrant and insightful essay collection about life as a poet in Southern California? Poetry and Hollywood may not seem compatible in anyone?s book. But acclaimed poet, novelist, and critic Carol Muske-Dukes finds common ground for both in meditations on movie sets and metaphors, on the big screen and the luminous focus of a haiku. I Married the Icepick Killer?offers the reader ways to reimagine the Imagination itself. Former California Poet Laureate Muske-Dukes explores Southern California?s unexpected poetry, from Emily Dickinson on freeway billboards to poet-script doctors rewriting action-flick dialogue. Moving personal essays recount the story of Muske-Dukes?s romance with her late husband, actor David Coleman Dukes, whom she met in Italy and relocated with in Los Angeles. Muske-Dukes sharpens her astute gaze as she addresses contradictions and convergences between belle lettres and the ever-surprising City of Angels. This ebook was originally published as?Married to the Icepick Killer.