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| .Six Girls Without Pants |
| Paisley Rekdal |
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| Book of the Year Award 2002 Honorable Mention —ForeWord Magazine |
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Poetry
88 Pages
ISBN: 0-910055-82-3
Paper: $15.95
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In her powerful second book of poems, Paisley Rekdal explores the dangerously ambiguous border-land that both separates and links the sexes. Full of humor, intelligence and more than a hint of violence, she questions our current ideas of what it might mean to be feminine, masculine and somewhere in-between, to be the winner (or loser) in lust and marriage. With great wit and precision, Rekdal's poems move back and forth between myth and biography, art and life, to reveal that complicated net of sex, death and desire that weaves through and complicates our beliefs about love.
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| Paisley Rekdal is the author of A Crash of Rhinos, co-winner of the 2000 University of Georgia Press' Contemporary Poetry Series Award, and the author of a memoir, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee, published by Pantheon and Vintage Books. She is the recipient of a 2000 Village Voice Writer on the Verge Award, a Wyoming Arts Council Literary Fellowship, and a Fulbright Fellowship. Her work has appeared in such publications as The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Nerve, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Indiana Review, Poetry Northwest and Pleiades, among others. She teaches at the University of Wyoming. |
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| Praise for Six Girls Without Pants |
"Paisley Rekdal's work is an irresistible combination of boldness, sly humor and striking lyric insight. These powerful poems open up to the paradox of our human fallibility and equally human grace. They explore the mystery and masquerade of sexual identity, the limits of desire, the tensions between body and representation. The language is beautiful, unstinting, marvelously precise. But that is not to sum up the work-as with any original voice there is an ineffable element, that flavor in the sumptuous dish that guests try to identify and then, giving up, simply revel in."
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—Beckian Fritz Goldberg..........
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