The Ravenous Audience Paperback by Kate Durbin

Product Details

• Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd. (2009-10-06)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 144 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781933354880
• Item Weight: 368.55 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

A startling debut volume, the latest in Chris Abani's Black Goat Poetry Series.

“Durbin’s debut volume sizzles . . . Throughout this deeply feminist, groundbreaking collection, she employs both the elemental forces of her intellect and a vigorous intensity of startling imagery to implode or explode conventional notions of sexuality and womanhood . . . This is a book that singes the fingertips.” —Maurya Simon, author of Cartographies

Little Red Riding Hood, Jezebel, Catherine Breillat’s Fat Girl, Marilyn Monroe, Amelia Earhart, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Christ—these are only a few of the archetypal and pop cultural characters that populate Kate Durbin’s strange and mesmerizing coming-of-age poetry collection, The Ravenous Audience.

About the Author

Kate Durbin is a Los Angeles based writer and artist. She is the author of The Ravenous Audience, E! Entertainment, and coauthor of Abra, an iPad app and artist's book created with the help of an NEA grant from the Center for Book and Paper Arts and Columbia College Chicago. She is founding editor of the online pop culture criticism journal, Gaga Stigmata.