Daphne Gottlieb.(Q&A)(Interview)

Publication: Curve

Publication Date: 01-DEC-03

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DAPHNE GOTTLIEB'S NEW POETRY COLLECTION FROM SOFT SKULL

Press, Final Girl, takes the central female figure of the classic slasher flick--the woman who survives until the last scene, either to kill or to be killed--and refigures her variously in the context of queer and feminist film theory, iconic American figures such as Patty Hearst and Marilyn Monroe, and Gottlieb's own mother's death from breast cancer.

You work in both feminist film theory and poetry. Are there things you can say as a poet that you maybe can't...

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