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  <title><![CDATA[Why Things Burn: Poems]]></title>
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  <default_description>For many performance poets, the simple act of writing down the words can kill a poem's spirit and energy. Not so with Daphne Gottlieb. In Why Things Burn, Gottlieb tackles sexuality, lesbian issues, rape, urban life, and a host of other topics with the same power of her live performances. Includes photos of the author in performance.</default_description>
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 26 22:05:31 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This collection of poetry was a quick read. Gottlieb's work is sometimes feminist--empowering even--with subjects as varied as rape, gay/lesbian, Cinderella, Barbie, conjoined twins, suicide, race, and even love poems. Her style leans towards experimental, which sometimes works for me, and sometimes...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38510948">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a fan of voice, of emotional honesty, which this collection is brimming. These poems ring most true when the voice expresses anger, rage, and pain, less so when it expresses political agendas. Gottlieb also experiments with intertext by weaving her lines through found texts such as graffiti on a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18943478">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yet another amazing Mills professor.  But that's not why this book is on my &quot;all time favorites&quot; list.  Daphne's poems are piercing, witty, and at times terrifying, but always full of fresh and brilliant images.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This might be my favorite Daphne Gottlieb collection. My favorite poems in it are: feminine protection, sink or swim, and the personal is political]]></body>
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