Caprice: Collected, Uncollected, & New Collaborations

by Denise Duhamel, Maureen Seaton

Collected, Uncollected, and New Collaborations is the quirky love child of Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton, award-winning poets who teamed up over twenty-five years ago to practice their collaborative skills on every topic they could joyfully feminism, gender, sex, witches, religion, the canon, movies, and Olive Oyl, to name just a few. From the erotic to the comedic, the political to the poignant, Caprice presents a fresh look at life from the unpredictable minds of two celebrated writers in their prime.

Genres: Poetry

284 pages, Paperback

First published August 27, 2015

About the author

Denise Duhamel's most recent books are Ka-Ching! (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009), Two and Two (Pittsburgh, 2005), Mille et un Sentiments (Firewheel, 2005); Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (Pittsburgh, 2001); The Star-Spangled Banner (Southern Illinois University Press, 1999); and Kinky (Orchises Press, 1997). A bilingual edition of her poems, Afortunada de mí (Lucky Me), translated into Spanish by Dagmar Buchholz and David Gonzalez, came out in 2008 with Bartleby Editores (Madrid.) A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, she is an associate professor at Florida International University in Miami.

Reviews

[Shawnte Orion · Rating 5 out of 5]

A magnificent synthesis of quirk and craft that explores ecofeminism, reimagines Olive Oyl as the star of Popeye, and condenses classic novels into sonnet-sized servings with every comedic, political, and erotic nuance intact.
This compilation of the poetic collaborations between Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton includes Exquisite Politics (1997), Oyl (200), Little Novels (2002), Gender’s Tidy Little Stories About Itself (2015) with bonus uncollected poems from those “Third Voice” experiments and several interviews that discuss their process and inspiration. This is the kind of book that your friends will borrow and never return.

[Jan · Rating 4 out of 5]

The latest of several collaborations between a straight poet and a lesbian poet, CAPRICE is clearly written by highly competent poets. Their publication credits are first-rate. I'm just not that into the kind of collaboration they do, some of which uses randomness as a technique.