Background
Daphne Gottlieb was born on the 1st of January, 1968 in New York City, New York, United States.
Daphne Gottlieb
30 Campus Rd, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY 12504, United States
Daphne Gottlieb studied at Bard College, where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA 94613, United States
Daphne Gottlieb earned a Master of Fine Arts from Mills College.
2011
2919 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, United States
Daphne Gottlieb reading at the new location of Modern Times Books on 24th Street in San Francisco.
2012
Author Daphne Gottlieb spent four years co-editing thousands of letters written by serial killer Aileen Wuornos.
2011
2919 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, United States
Daphne Gottlieb reading at the new location of Modern Times Books on 24th Street in San Francisco.
2012
Author Daphne Gottlieb spent four years co-editing thousands of letters written by serial killer Aileen Wuornos.
30 Campus Rd, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY 12504, United States
Daphne Gottlieb studied at Bard College, where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA 94613, United States
Daphne Gottlieb earned a Master of Fine Arts from Mills College.
(Using the language of every day to express the extraordin...)
Using the language of every day to express the extraordinary, poet Daphne Gottlieb searches for the truths of human experience and finds those truths in relationships, childhood, and a woman on fire. Pelt is a document of survival in a slaughterhouse culture. From preying to praying, the loss of innocence and the innocence of loss, and the cruelest and unusual stuff of all love these poems represent a strong, fresh voice in contemporary poetry.
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1999
(For many performance poets, the simple act of writing dow...)
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.
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2001
(Final Girl, the last girl left alive in the syntax of the...)
Final Girl, the last girl left alive in the syntax of the "slasher" traces the history of the femme fatale in a sequence of poems and stories that display the verve and wit readers have come to expect from Gottlieb. In Final Girl Gottlieb is the survivor, the one who remains to tell the story: what was done to others, what was done to her, what might yet be done to her.
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2003
(Exploring the realities of public piety and private phila...)
Exploring the realities of public piety and private philandering, Homewrecker combines fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to present a multitude of perspectives on adultery and the emotional complexity that affairs entail. Acclaimed contemporary writers share space with fresh talent in its pages, each with a different take on adultery and its aftermath.
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2005
(Heard the one about the dying father? In this savagely br...)
Heard the one about the dying father? In this savagely brilliant graphic novel by slam poet Daphne Gottlieb (Final Girl) and Hothead Paisan creator Diane DiMassa, a 19-year-old woman named Sasha loses her father to cancer and takes a job in the hospital where he had worked as a doctor. Moving from room to room with her clipboard of forms, Sasha encounters the insane, the suicidal, and the brave then returns to her office to look up all her friends’ and enemies’ medical records.
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2006
(Gertrude Stein's work is co-opted and re-seen in an attem...)
Gertrude Stein's work is co-opted and re-seen in an attempt to unpack the relationship between love and war; Walt Whitman makes a command performance in dismembered bits of forced formal verse and "The Exorcist" and "The Devil in Miss Jones" are sutured together in an attempt to locate the horror of desire. Fusing pornography and postfeminist theory, transcript, and tell-all, these playful, penetrating poems and stories reach off the page in search of what it is to be known, both to the masses and to the "Other".
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2008
(Harnessing the playfulness of the hoax, the seductiveness...)
Harnessing the playfulness of the hoax, the seductiveness of literature, and the edginess of the avant-garde, Fucking Daphne is unique in a culture hungry for sex, information, and most of all, understanding.
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2008
(Broken hearts, scattered dreams, postpunk politics, and p...)
Broken hearts, scattered dreams, postpunk politics, and postmodern cut-up collages spiral and flow in award-winning poet Daphne Gottlieb’s latest collection of startling new works that explore survival after personal or communal disasters and the renewal that follows.
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2011
(Between 1989 and 1990, Aileen Wuornos, a hitchhiking pros...)
Between 1989 and 1990, Aileen Wuornos, a hitchhiking prostitute, shot, killed, and robbed seven men in remote Florida locations. Arrested in 1991, Wuornos insisted she had acted in self-defense, but the jury had little sympathy. Condemned to death on six separate counts, she was executed by lethal injection in 2002. Dear Dawn is Wuornos’s autobiography culled from her ten-year death row correspondence with beloved childhood friend Dawn Botkins.
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2012
Daphne Gottlieb was born on the 1st of January, 1968 in New York City, New York, United States.
Daphne Gottlieb studied at Bard College, where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Later she received a Master of Fine Arts from Mills College.
Gottlieb began her career at Mills College, Oakland as an instructor. She then moved to New College of California, where she worked as a faculty member and has also performed and taught creative writing workshops around the country, from high schools and colleges to community centers.
Daphne Gottlieb was a co-organizer of ForWord Girls, a first spoken word festival for anyone who is, has been or will be a girl, which was held on September 2002. She appears across the United States, including the Slam America bus tour, and at various festivals.
Gottlieb has served as the poetry editor for the online queer literary magazine Lodestar Quarterly.
Gottlieb moved to San Francisco, California, in 1991, where she became involved with performance groups like Sister Spit and until 1998 she was a slam poet. In her first collection Pelt that was published in 1999, she writes about childhood abuse. She wrote Why Things Burn: Poems in 2001, Final Girl in 2003, Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader in 2005, Jokes and the Unconscious in 2006, Kissing Dead Girls in 2008, 15 Ways to Stay Alive in 2011 and Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in Her Own Words in 2012.
Daphne is also contributor to anthologies, including Short Fuse: A Contemporary Anthology of Global Performance Poetry, With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn, Red Light: Saints, Sinners, and Sluts, Don't Forget to Write! and contributor to periodicals, journals, and Web sites, including San Francisco Bay Guardian, Exquisite Corpse, and Nerve.com.
Daphne Gottlieb’s Final Girl was named one of The Village Voice's Favorite Books of 2003, and received rave reviews from Publishers Weekly, the San Francisco Chronicle and The Village Voice. It was also nominated for a Bram Stoker Award by the Horror Writer's Association.
Daphne’s Why Things Burn was a finalist for the 2001 Lambda Literary Award, Fucking Daphne: Mostly True Stories and Fictions and Kissing Dead Girls were nominees for the 2008 Lambda Literary Award.
(Gertrude Stein's work is co-opted and re-seen in an attem...)
2008(Heard the one about the dying father? In this savagely br...)
2006(Broken hearts, scattered dreams, postpunk politics, and p...)
2011(Exploring the realities of public piety and private phila...)
2005(Final Girl, the last girl left alive in the syntax of the...)
2003(Harnessing the playfulness of the hoax, the seductiveness...)
2008(Using the language of every day to express the extraordin...)
1999(Between 1989 and 1990, Aileen Wuornos, a hitchhiking pros...)
2012(For many performance poets, the simple act of writing dow...)
2001
Quotations:
"I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters - that poetry changes or saves anything or anyone. But, in fact, that's tremendously freeing. If it doesn't matter much, the stakes are lower and you can't really fail. It's insurrection. It's a tiny alphabet revolution. A secret. A psalm".
"Poetry is a lousy form of activism; it doesn't really change much. And maybe we can point to one or two historical times when a poem has started a revolution or a rebellion or an uprising, but it doesn't happen that often, and if you put the number of poems next to the number of political acts, it would be pretty slim".
"Love - at least the pair-bonded, prescribed love - does not conquer all".
"I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me".
"I'm entranced by the idea of reading the culture back to itself because I'm conscious that we as people and also as a culture are myth-making machines. So I'm interested in resistance to that: What we can bend, what we can break".
