Kim Addonizio





Kim Addonizio

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July 31, 1954 in Washington, DC, The United States

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Kim Addonizio is the author of four poetry collections including Tell Me, A National Book Award Finalist. Her fifth collection, Lucifer at the Starlite, will be published by W.W. Norton in October 2009.

Addonizio has also authored two instructional books on writing poetry: The Poet's Companion (with Dorianne Laux), and Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within, both from W.W. Norton.

Her first novel, Little Beauties, was published by Simon & Schuster in August 2005 and came out in paperback in July 06. Little Beauties was chosen as "Best Book of the Month" by Book of the Month Club. My Dreams Out in the Street, her second novel, was released by Simon & Schuster in 2007.

She also has a word/music CD with poet Susan Browne, "Swearing,...more


Average rating: 3.82 · 3,076 ratings · 525 reviews · 15 distinct works
The Poet's Companion: A Gui...
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Tell Me
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 373 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions
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What Is This Thing Called L...
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Little Beauties: A Novel
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Ordinary Genius: A Guide fo...
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Lucifer at the Starlite: Poems
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Jimmy & Rita
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions
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My Dreams Out in the Street...
3.32 of 5 stars 3.32 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions
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The Philosopher's Club
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions
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“. . . All artists’ work is autobiographical. Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them.”
Kim Addonizio

“What Do Women Want?"

I want a red dress.
I want it flimsy and cheap,
I want it too tight, I want to wear it
until someone tears it off me.
I want it sleeveless and backless,
this dress, so no one has to guess
what's underneath. I want to walk down
the street past Thrifty's and the hardware store
with all those keys glittering in the window,
past Mr. and Mrs. Wong selling day-old
donuts in their café, past the Guerra brothers
slinging pigs from the truck and onto the dolly,
hoisting the slick snouts over their shoulders.
I want to walk like I'm the only
woman on earth and I can have my pick.
I want that red dress bad.
I want it to confirm
your worst fears about me,
to show you how little I care about you
or anything except what
I want. When I find it, I'll pull that garment
from its hanger like I'm choosing a body
to carry me into this world, through
the birth-cries and the love-cries too,
and I'll wear it like bones, like skin,
it'll be the goddamned
dress they bury me in.”
Kim Addonizio

“Love me like a wrong turn on a bad road
late at night.”
Kim Addonizio

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