Pelt [Paperback]

Daphne Gottlieb (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 75 pages
• Publisher: Odd Girls Press; 1st edition (June 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1887237097
• ISBN-13: 978-1887237093
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,343,853 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

San Francisco-based Performance Poet Daphne Gottlieb stitches together the ivory tower and the gutter just using her tongue. She is the author and editor of nine books, most recently the poetry book 15 Ways to Stay Alive as well as co-editor (with Lisa Kester) of Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in her Own Words.? She is the editor of F**king Daphne: Mostly True Stories and Fictions and Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader, as well as the author of the poetry books Kissing Dead Girls, Final Girl, Why Things Burn and Pelt, and as the graphic novel Jokes and the Unconscious with artist Diane DiMassa.

Final Girl was the winner of the Audre Lorde Award in Poetry for 2003 from Publishing Triangle. Additionally, Final Girl was named one of the The Village Voice's Favorite Books of 2003, and received rave reviews from Publisher's Weekly, The San Francisco Chronicle and The Village Voice. Why Things Burn was the winner of a 2001 Firecracker Alternative Book Award (Special Recognition -- Spoken Word) and was also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for 2001. Her work has been translated into Turkish and Greek, and has inspired theatrical adaptations and DJ-remixes.

Recent press has praised her work as "fierce," "unapologetic," "scorching" and "deliriously gutsy." She has been widely published in journals including The Utne Reader, Tikkun, nerve.com, mcsweeney's.net, Exquisite Corpse and Instant City. Her work has appeared in a number of anthologies including Live Through This: The Art of Self-Destruction, Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders of the Spoken Word Revolution, Don't Forget to Write!, Half Life: Jew-ish Tales from Interfaith Homes, With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn and Short Fuse: A Contemporary Anthology of Global Performance Poetry. She is also the cover girl on San Francisco Noir (Akashic Books, 2005).

Besides anchoring three national performance poetry tours, featuring with Maggie Estep, Hal Sirowitz and Lydia Lunch, 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.

Until 2006, she served as the poetry editor of the online queer literary magazine Lodestar Quarterly. She also was the poetry editor of Other Magazine and a co-organizer of ForWord Girls, the first spoken word festival for anyone who is, has been or will be a girl, which was held in September 2002.

Gottlieb teaches graduate-level creative writing, and has also performed and taught creative writing workshops at all levels around the country. She received her MFA from Mills College.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An exhilerating read!, September 1, 1999

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This review is from: Pelt (Paperback)

I read Pelt from cover-to-cover in one sitting; a first for me with poetry. Some of the poems made me laugh out loud. Gottlieb's poems ran the artistic gamut from brilliantly funny to achingly romantic to evisceratingly real. This is the kind of poetry that starts revolutions. This book is a pleasure. You will read it more than once.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Daphne Gottlieb -- what more?, April 18, 2002

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Noah Gibbs (San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pelt (Paperback)

There you are, sitting, stunned. Maybe you've read just a poem or two of hers on the web (search for her!). Maybe you've read all of her other book, Why Things Burn, already. Your hands are shaking. Your head is swishing back and forth. Cognitive dissonance is setting in. You need *more*!

That's why you buy this book.

Either that or you've done a web search for "Watch Your Tense and Case". Once you've read *that*, you'll understand why you absolutely *must* own the book that contains it *right now*.

5.0 out of 5 stars Succulent poetry, July 7, 2002

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"blissengine" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pelt (Paperback)

I thoroughly enjoyed Gottlieb's second poetry collection "Why Things Burn" (which was a Lambda Literary Award nominee), and have been looking forward to reading "Pelt", and now I just don't know why I waited so long. Gottlieb's poetry is vibrant and succulent. This is poetry with tongue (sharp and biting, speaking truths, caressing and loving, devouring the reader in return). Covering topics from childhood to womanhood, from relationships to the world at large, "Pelt" is an amazing book exploring the true things in human experience.