Famous Last Words

By Catherine Pierce

Winner of the 2007 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, Selected by John Yau Catherine Pierce's debut, Famous Last Words, is a love letter to life, poetry, and all things American. Beginning with a series of literal love poems (to the word "lonesome," to blank space, to doo-wop, to fear, etc.), Pierce whisks the reader on a cross-country road trip (both literally and figuratively) that takes a tangential spree into a series of genre films and ends with gallows humor in the re-imagining of the events surrounding the famous last words of icons like Billy the Kid, Marie Antoinette, Isadora Duncan, and Pancho Villa. From start to finish, Pierce's book is a delight to the senses, a playful, nostalgic dance that ends with the reader wanting more.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0975499076
• ISBN13: 9780975499078
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Saturnalia Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.8" x 7.5"