| Madame Deluxe Contributor(s): Darlington, Tenaya (Author) |
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ISBN: 1566891051 ISBN-13: 9781566891059 Publisher: Coffee House Press OUR PRICE: $12.56 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2000 Annotation: Tenaya Darlington, Madame Deluxe, is a truthsayer with attitude and an agenda to boot. She's a charmer, an alarmer, a kick in the pants, a hootit's heartening to know what poetry can still do.-Lawson Fusao Inada "Madame Deluxe" is all things loud and leopard print. Inspired by years of watching drag shows, Darlington evokes a persona who wanders the periphery of femininity. Striking out against artifice, staging her own myth, Madame Deluxe is a she-male Vesuvius. Tenaya Darlington is the managing editor for "Beloit Fiction Journal." Her work has appeared in "Scribner's Best of the Fiction Workshops 1998" and "In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal. Madame Deluxe" was selected by Lawson Fusao Inada for the National Poetry Series. Darlington lives in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 000043023 |
| Series: National Poetry Series Books (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 7.01" W x 10.04" (0.30 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Tenaya Darlington, Madame Deluxe, is a truthsayer with attitude and an agenda to boot. She's a charmer, an alarmer, a kick in the pants, a hoot...it's heartening to know what poetry can still do.--Lawson Fusao Inada Madame Deluxe is all things loud and leopard print. Inspired by years of watching drag shows, Darlington evokes a persona who wanders the periphery of femininity. Striking out against artifice, staging her own myth, Madame Deluxe is a she-male Vesuvius. Tenaya Darlington is the managing editor for Beloit Fiction Journal. Her work has appeared in Scribner's Best of the Fiction Workshops 1998 and In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal. Madame Deluxe was selected by Lawson Fusao Inada for the National Poetry Series. Darlington lives in Madison, Wisconsin. |
