Kinky

By Denise Duhamel

Book Overview

I'd buy this book just for the cover, but the poems are even twice as wonderful. Denise Duhamel has apparently obsessed for months about the Barbie doll phenomenon: all the poems have to do with the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0914061615
• ISBN13: 9780914061618
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Orchises Press
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Witty, cutting, thought-provoking

The headline says it all. These poems are in turn funny and heartbreaking, weird and satisfying, and make the reader pause after reading each one. Highly, highly reccomend!

Ms Duhamel not only deconstucts Barbie but all America

First off this is one of the funniest books of serious petry ever written. Second, using Barbie to show all the hypocracy and flaws in our culture and society works wonderfully. Third the empathy the poems show for those of us, for whatever reason, don't fit the Barbie and Ken mode is truly touching.

Excellent

The book explores the issues of gender, beauty, religion, and effects of imperialism and corporatization with cutting and savvy humor. A quick and pleasurable read.

Watch out Mattel!

Perhaps you should hire Duhamel to design the next Barbie? Her poems are funnier than most stand-up comic routines! Each is a twisted little Barbie fantasy--a grown-up playing with the doll. Listen in on Barbie's therapy sessions, which, perhaps, are not all that different from your own. Duhamel deconstructs Barbie with tenderness--no small feat for a book of satire.

Kinky is an excellent, lively collection of poems

An entire book of poems about Barbie dolls? You bet, and you bet it's good. Duhamel approaches these overly-proportioned pieces of plastic with a mixture of childhood enjoyment and deep cynicism which will wash you away with both the humor and the tragedy you didn't know were there. This book is fantastic, it's poetry that's not just alive, it's brighter than a pink taffeta ball gown.