Doll Studies: Forensics by Carol Guess (6-Mar-2012) Paperback

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(Love Is a Map I Must Not Set on Fire) Author: Carol Guess published on (January, 2010)

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My Father in Water

(Literary Nonfiction. Essays. LGBT Studies. This interlink...)

Literary Nonfiction. Essays. LGBT Studies. This interlinked collection of lyric essays documents Carol Guess's relationship to her father, a brilliant scientist whose intensity and eccentricity shaped family life in humorous and often lonely ways. In musical prose, writing as a poet, teacher, and queer activist, Guess describes a life lived in service to language. At once accessible and enigmatic, funny and somber, MY FATHER IN WATER is a haunting examination of the impact of family history on one artist's journey.

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How to Feel Confident with Your Special Talents

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Poetry. "These prose poems are the best kind of revolution: sly and funny, subversive and wise."—Sarah McCarry "Like everyone else, I am desperate to get it right, to know how to dress for the Ouija board or how to stop being in love with people I'll never meet. The volume of what we don't know, what we need to know NOW could drown a lonely surfer, but Guess & Olszewska have the skills and the code that will bring us back to life. They comb, channel, and distill the ether. They answer the questions beating so secretly in our chests, we didn't know to ask them. They build a stunning pedagogy of the surfpressed. I would like to live in the world where these were the answers and allegories Googling provided. Let's put on a dramatic amount of make-up, set a small fire for the smell of singed crosshair, and tell the birds nesting in the eaves that it's over. This book emits a peculiar, beguiling, electric calm."—Danielle Pafunda

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Tinderbox Lawn

(Poetry. Set on the margins of Seattle, beneath bridges an...)

Poetry. Set on the margins of Seattle, beneath bridges and on the banks of waterways, in strip clubs and flooded farmland, the prose poems in TINDERBOX LAWN illuminate the intersection of domesticity and bohemia, orthodoxy and passion. Each untitled block of prose constitutes a novel-in-miniature, with shadow characters and shards of plot. The intensity of Carol Guess's poems builds through lyrical language and recurring images, capturing the moment when the small mad heart at the center of things stalls mid-tick. "This is such deep, rich writing. TINDERBOX LAWN feels like dreams you forgot as you walk through your day but it's your life. I mean we never think as deeply as we live and Carol Guess tries to braid those strands and succeeds. I love being in this work"—Eileen Myles.

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Doll Studies: Forensics

(Poetry. Based on The Nutshell Studies Of Unexplained Deat...)

Poetry. Based on The Nutshell Studies Of Unexplained Death, crime scene dioramas photographed by Corinne Botz, Carol Guess adds sound to the stillness of Frances Glessner Lee's bloodstained rooms.

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Index of Placebo Effects

(Carol Guess explains, "This tiny book is based on the ind...)

Carol Guess explains, "This tiny book is based on the index of my father's co-edited anthology, The Science of the Placebo. I selected terms from the index of his book and used them to organize a fractured, fragmented narrative that was originally part of a longer manuscript titled Hand mit Ringen. While I was working on Doll Studies: Forensics, I winnowed part of that longer manuscript into the story of a vet returning from WWII. It appears in Doll Studies as "Departure Lounge." Then I worried and revised and changed the remaining material, adding and subtracting, returning to the original narrative: the story of two women, a plane crash, and too many cameras. Guided at first by the NATO phonetic alphabet, I eventually used the index of my father's book to structure their story, which became Index of Placebo Effects. As always, I miss my father, and wish I could share this process with him. I suppose the path to scientific discovery is not that different from the path to a story: hard work and happy accidents."

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Darling Endangered

(The voice narrating Carol Guess' newest book is that of a...)

The voice narrating Carol Guess' newest book is that of a playfully effusive but meticulous cataloguer of our darker inquiries and oddities, a suburban former dancer with the inner life and vision of an epic librettist. Darling Endangered is nothing short of exceptional, a rare breed of hybrid that works between the 'flash' of short fiction and the swift bite of the lyric. From the dizzying, battered nostalgia of youth remembered to the experiential trappings of maturity, Guess' collection maps the journey of a singular, sensitive existence through an ever-illuminating world of wayward hawks and track star meth addicts, avalanches and hot dog carts, zombie buildings, the works of Balanchine and Pachelbel, and the promises of love and love's disorders. You will not read another book quite like it.

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Seeing Dell by Carol Guess (1996-03-03)

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Four Novels of Lesbian Romance: 'Seeing Dell'; 'Sinking, Stealing'; 'Chris'; 'Heartscape' (Four Separate Books)

(Four Lesbian Romances in Four Separate Books: 'Seeing Del...)

Four Lesbian Romances in Four Separate Books: 'Seeing Dell' by Carol Guess, 'Sinking, Stealing' by Jan Clausen, 'Chris' by Randy Salem ' and 'Heartscape' by Sue Gambill

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Doll Studies: Forensics by Carol Guess (2012-03-06)

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My Father in Water (New) by Guess, Carol ( Author ) Oct-2011 Paperback

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Love Is A Map I Must Not Set On Fire

(Carol Guess' third book of poetry surveys the aftermath o...)

Carol Guess' third book of poetry surveys the aftermath of a relationship and the geography of loss. Humor ebbs in amidst this poet's observance of the personal and the nation's upheaval.

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X Marks the Dress: A Registry by Kristina Marie Darling (2013-08-15)

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X Marks the Dress: A Registry

(Poetry. Women's Studies. "In X MARKS THE DRESS, Darling &...)

Poetry. Women's Studies. "In X MARKS THE DRESS, Darling & Guess weave a narrative of love and identity that unpacks itself again and again. Like beautifully wrought Matryoshka dolls, these poems explore the depth and wonder of language as well as its inability to truly define any one thing. Lines and images reappear in new and surprising ways—footnotes, appendices, definitions—that stunningly illustrate exactly how slippery love can be."—Erin Elizabeth Smith "X MARKS THE DRESS: A REGISTRY by Kristina Marie Darling & Carol Guess presents the scintillating variables of time and its complex philosophical relationship with experiential space. These poems spark an incandescent fire of imagination in an enormous tonal range. Positioned on both sides of the mirror at once, watching reflections of ever-changing backgrounds of relationships and marriage. Like dreaming about having a dream this book cajole, beckon and posit in transcendent, expressive, and provocative words. Ultimately, the words never fill the void. Instead, they take us deeper and deeper down to a dark and disorienting place that continually excites the reader with its possibilities. This is an excellent work from two wonderful poets."—Geoffrey Gatza "In Kristina Marie Darling and Carol Guess's collaborative book, X MARKS THE DRESS: A REGISTRY, the reader receives a delicious catalog of wants. The cohabitation of idealized domestic bliss and the wild and unwilling spirit of individuality split the difference. The newlyweds divide the baby in half. The unspoken gets footnoted. The remnants get erased and placed in the appendices. In glorious sequences of riffs, flirtations, recombinations, and dances, Darling and Guess's collaboration intoxicates. Though the wedding china may get smashed against the trees, and though the stiletto heels may get broken, the moments in these lyrical vignettes will be long enshrined "on a red satin pillow."—Oliver de la Paz "These poems are arch, eyeing the cake. They undo us as we enter their rooms, our lace caught on the door knob, our mouths dripping generations of nameless desire. Each poem is a strand that keeps us tied to the marriage ritual, yet the reader is left diced up and served, simmered in pink, skeptical of the heart yet wanting to eat another's. 'I love you more because I love you both' is the song we dance to, the cadence that questions what a bond is, and between whom, and whether it is possible to love at all (when love is a mirror in a room of mirrors)."—Emily Kendal Frey

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