Denise Duhamel’s most recent titles are The Star Spangled Banner (winner of Crab Orchard Poetry Prize, Southern Illinois University Press, 1999) and Oyl (a collaborative chapbook with Maureen Seaton, Pearl Editions, 2000). Her other books and chapbooks of poetry include: Exquisite Politics (a collaborative work with Maureen Seaton), Kinky, Girl Soldier, and How the Sky Fell. […]
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Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton: Olive Oyl Cento
her toes are not the lobes of autobiography (An ingrown toenail?) that is, a history (An ingrown toenail?) like Ginger Rogers in Swingtime this: the flooding into the flooding and shriek! shriek! God must have a big eye to see everything that is, a history A shipwreck in Haven a shape made of links, elongated […]
Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton: Interview with a Comic Strip Diva
We sat down with Olive Oyl at her home in Chester, Illinois. We were struck by the graceful reserve with which she served us herbal tea, her quiet yet sparkling generosity. MS: Ms. Oyl, you’ve been called the skinniest thing in boots. Do you find this interferes with your self-esteem? OO: Did you ask General […]
Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton: Hillbilling and Cooing (1956)
Olive gulps spinach when a hillbilly gal steals Popeye the Sailor away from her and lays Swee’pea on her shoulder like sacked flour, cooing in her Patsy Cline legato: I’m the bitch goddess who’ll break your heart. Kudzu blooms (this episode takes place in the South) and everyone, even Wimpy, drinks fresh lemonade. Olive’s victorious […]
Denise Duhamel: Letters to Wendy’s
Joe Wenderoth Verse Press paper, $14 Letters to Wendy’s is simply one of the funniest, most irreverent books I’ve ever read. I’ve been a fan of Joe Wenderoth’s work over the past two years, ever since Ross Martin, an editor an Nerve, told me, “You have to see these Wendy poems we just published…” I […]
Denise Duhamel: Poet As Her Own Muse: A Review Of Eight First Books
Muse, Susan Aizenberg (Southern Illinois University Press, 2002, $12.95) Year Of Morphines, Betsy Brown (Louisiana State University Press, 2002, $24.95 cloth, $16.95 paper) No One With A Past Is Safe, Page Dougherty (Word Press, 2002, $16) Open House, Beth Ann Fennelly (Zoo Press, 2002, $19.95) Fabulae, Joy Katz (Southern Illinois University Press, 2002, paper $12.95) […]