Daphne Gottlieb

The one who remains to tell the story -- the "final girl" -- is the last girl left alive in this bracing cycle of poems that draw on slasher movies, captivity fantasies, queer theory, and death from breast cancer. Sexy and tart, low-down and high-hearted poems such as Suture, Slash, Vamp, and Bride of Reanimator articulate the dark desires, fears, and traumas out of which pop culture is made. Author Daphne Gottlieb is the winner of the 2002 Firecracker Award and a 2002 Lambda Finalist.

Final Girl

Sasha

If you really want to hurt a girl, forget the garlic. She'll just make skorthalia with it. She's resourceful. Give her a rose instead, an American Beauty or perhaps a Sweetheart, pink, plump, full-bodied, fill her mouth with it so it stretches around. She's already got the thorns.

from the poem "Sentencing The Alphathreat"

one of those cigarette-swilling heartbreakers

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