| Vauxhall Contributor(s): Daly, Catherine (Author) |
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ISBN: 1905700717 ISBN-13: 9781905700714 Publisher: Shearsman Books OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2008 Annotation: Vauxhall is pitched where voice and experience coincide. The poems sing and dance through heavenly mansions and real bungalows, tourist traps and museums, pharmacies and ven-ding machines. Vauxhall is a calendar. It's an "all occasion" greeting and gift. Catherine Daly was a disk and video jockey in high school in Illinois and college in Connecticut. Her shows were devoted to cover, sample, mix, and mash of noise, novelty, and song. During commutes in California, she began listening to even more recorded poetry and to commercial radio. Her lifelong magpie habits are somewhat legitimized by her work as a general contractor specializing in restoration and her early work in her mother's used clothing stores. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| Physical Information: 0.24" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.30 lbs) 97 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Poetry. VAUXHALL is pitched where voice and experience coincide. The poems sing and dance through heavenly mansions and real bungalows, tourist traps and museums, pharmacies and vending machines. VAUXHALL is a calendar. It's an all occasion greeting and gift. The Hollywood pitch for VAUXHALL might have been Marianne Moore meets Joan Jett or Alexander Pope goes to night school. Like the pleasure garden once called Fox's Hill which gives this book its title, VAUXHALL puts emotion in Place because things are alone or entire after they have been torn or leased or unmoored. Or, to quote rather than rephrase Yeats, Love has pitched his mansion in / The place of excrement; / For nothing can be sole or whole / That has not been rent. Catherine Daly is also the author of CHANTEUSE/CANTATRICE, LOCKET, and DADADA, all available from SPD. |
Contributor Bio(s): Daly, Catherine: - Catherine Daly has worked as a technical architect, officer in a Wall Street investment bank, engineer supporting the space shuttle orbiter, software developer for motion picture studios, and teacher. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, and is the author of six previous collections of poetry. |