"The poetry world has never met a more brilliant spy in the house of porn..."
Beth Lisick, author, Everybody Into the Pool
In her second collection of poetry, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz serves up a hilarious and uncompromising autobiographical bender about her first job out of college: writing and editing for the porn industry. Whether denouncing the corporate world ("To Whom It May Concern"), or lustily joining it ("New Millennial Bad Ass"), to celebrating love in the face of smut ("Let's Make Out!"), Aptowicz dramatizes the hopes, humor and ambitions of young poet first steps into a very surreal 'real world.' This expanded version nearly triples the length of the original with previously unpublished works, including "Sass Manifesto," which was used to win the 2004 National Forsenics Championship in Poetry Interpretation.
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Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz is the author of five books of poetry and the nonfiction book, "Words In Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam," which Billy Collins wrote "leaves no doubt that the slam poetry scene has achieved legitimacy and taken its rightful place on the map of contemporary literature." Most recently, she awarded a 2011 National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Poetry.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Such an endearing li'l poetic narrative,
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This review is from: Hot Teen Slut (Paperback)
Note: I'm waaaay tired. And a little bit drunk on cheesecake. That said: I really like this book. Cristin is always poignant, honest, and funny. You can expect that in any of her books, but what I adore about this book specifically is:
1) You have to love a virgin working in the porn industry. 2) The juxtaposition of the rawness of porn against budding young love. 3) Poems are often narrative, but rarely do you get an entire book that paints such a lovely picture of this relatable and fragile time in one's life: right out of college, full of hope, full of terror, full of real-world-kicking-you-in-the-faceness. 4) So, um, I think the line from the poem is, "I could make money off those tits . . ." or something like that. The heart of that poem: that the most popular porn is that of the most normal, ordinary, and extraordinary people has stuck with me long, long after reading it. Porn can be a very ugly, ugly business, and Cristin's ability to find the humane and the beautiful within it is . . . well, it's what she does. Read it in public. It'll make your nipples hard.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Not just about porn,
This review is from: Hot Teen Slut (Paperback)
Yes, there are poems about porn. Yes, some of the are titillating. But anyone reading it just for that or only seeing that is missing the point. What this book is really about is person struggling make ends meet in an awkward job. In that respect its a lot like her other book "Working Class Represent." The poems are funny, witty, and yes, occasionally even poignant.
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