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  <name><![CDATA[Kim Addonizio]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Kim Addonizio is the author of four poetry collections including &lt;i&gt;Tell Me&lt;/i&gt;, A National Book Award Finalist. Her fifth collection, &lt;i&gt;Lucifer at the Starlite&lt;/i&gt;, will be published by W.W. Norton in October 2009.

Addonizio has also authored two instructional books on writing poetry: &lt;i&gt;The Poet's Companion&lt;/i&gt; (with Dorianne Laux), and &lt;i&gt;Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within&lt;/i&gt;, both from W.W. Norton.

Her first novel, &lt;i&gt;Little Beauties&lt;/i&gt;, was published by Simon &amp; Schuster in August 2005 and came out in paperback in July 06. &lt;i&gt;Little Beauties&lt;/i&gt; was chosen as &quot;Best Book of the Month&quot; by Book of the Month Club. &lt;i&gt;My Dreams Out in the Street&lt;/i&gt;, her second novel, was released by Simon &amp; Schuster in 2007.

She also has a word/music CD with poet Susan Browne, &quot;Swearing, Smoking, Drinking, &amp; Kissing,&quot; available from cdbaby; a book of stories, &lt;i&gt;In the Box Called Pleasure&lt;/i&gt; (FC2); and the anthology &lt;i&gt;Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos&lt;/i&gt;, co-edited with Cheryl Dumesnil.

Addonizio's awards include two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship,a Pushcart Prize, a Commonwealth Club Poetry Medal, and the John Ciardi Lifetime Achievement Award. Her poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared widely in anthologies, literary journals, and textbooks, including &lt;i&gt;Alaska Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, Bad Girls, Chick-Lit, Dick for a Day, Gettysburg Review, Paris Review, Penthouse, Poetry&lt;/i&gt;, and &lt;i&gt;Threepenny Review&lt;/i&gt;. She teaches private workshops in Oakland, CA, and online. ]]></about>    <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>Washington, DC</hometown>  <born_at>07/31/1954</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Dorianne Laux]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.14</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>225</ratings_count>
  <published>1997</published>  
  
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        <book id="411247">
  <title><![CDATA[What Is This Thing Called Love]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kim Addonizio]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.24</average_rating>
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  <published>2004</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Tell Me]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kim Addonizio]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.12</average_rating>
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  <published>2000</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Little Beauties: A Novel]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kim Addonizio]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kim Addonizio]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Cheryl Dumesnil]]></name>
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  <published>2002</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Jimmy &amp; Rita]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kim Addonizio]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.66</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>50</ratings_count>
  <published>1996</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kim Addonizio]]></name>
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  <published>2009</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[My Dreams Out in the Street: A Novel]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kim Addonizio]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.34</average_rating>
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  <published>2007</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Philosopher's Club]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kim Addonizio]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.84</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>43</ratings_count>
  <published>1993</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[In the Box Called Pleasure]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kim Addonizio]]></name>
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  <published>1999</published>  
  
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