Kissing Dead Girls

Beginning with the province of legend, Kissing Dead Girls uses poetic inappropriateness to touch historical paragons and examine what it is about them that touches readers in vignettes, casting the narrator as the lover of Josephine Baker, Amelia Earhart, Anne Frank, Frida Kahlo, Jonbenet Ramsey, Sharon Tate and Karen Carpenter. Fusing together pornography and post-feminist theory, transcript and tell-all, these poems and stories reach off the page in search of what it is to be known.

Daphne Gottlieb teaches at the New College of California.

Mouth-to-mouth	p. 3
How to make a dead girl	p. 4
Destroyer of all things	p. 5
Pilot light	p. 6
Fragment of an analysis of a case of hysteria	p. 8
Re-agent	p. 10
Undressing Josephine in public	p. 12
Undressing Josephine in private	p. 13
The it girl	p. 14
How to make a dead girl float	p. 15
Everything she asks of me	p. 16
Suicide artist	p. 18
Lucky in love	p. 20
Animal magnetism	p. 21
Letters to a dead reader	p. 24
Whitman's sampler: killing the father of free verse	p. 25
Gertrude reflects on sex	p. 27
Elemental	p. 30
Shining the boy	p. 32
The hit parade	p. 33
Stockholm syndrome	p. 34
Waxing	p. 37
Incisive	p. 38
Vocabulary lesson six	p. 39
Torch song for you	p. 41
It's not sexy when you do it like that	p. 42
Twelve love words and two words of despair after Pablo Neruda	p. 45
Sharp	p. 46
If music be the fruit of love	p. 48
Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?	p. 49
The nation-state of her body	p. 51
Our lady of the other	p. 52
Signed, sealed, delivered	p. 58
The use of recent world events considered	p. 59
There's no place	p. 61
Janis Joplin walks home alone late at night	p. 62
Because property crimes are not defined as acts of violence	p. 63
Carry-on	p. 65
Speed times distance	p. 67
Roe parasites	p. 69
Frequently asked questions	p. 72
Self-possessed	p. 73
Heavy the head	p. 77
Dear John [undated] (postcards to my rapist)	p. 78
Kiss someone when you hear of the woman with the gun and you will make magic	p. 81
Banking the break	p. 83
Edge play	p. 86
On the difference between dead girls and ghosts	p. 89
The whole world is singing	p. 90
Oh Juliet	p. 93
Casualty	p. 94
Wild kingdom	p. 97
Cherchez la femme	p. 99
Introducing Linda Lovelace as herself	p. 100
Re dress	p. 109
American gothic	p. 112
Love poem after Aretha Franklin	p. 114
The real deal	p. 115
Someone should write me a love poem but I'm stuck doing it myself	p. 120
Sentenced	p. 122
Glass onion	p. 124
Two women	p. 126
Organic	p. 128
Calliope	p. 130
Living legend	p. 132
Coney Island baby	p. 135
Maps and legends	p. 136
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