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Final Girl

by Daphne Gottlieb · 2003

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The one who remains to tell the story - the "final girl" - is the last girl left alive in this bracing cycle of poems that draw on slasher movies, captivity fantasies, queer theory, and death from breast cancer. Sexy and tart, low-down and high-hearted poems such as Suture, Slash, Vamp, and Bride of Reanimator articulate the dark desires, fears, and traumas out of which pop culture is made. Author Daphne Gottlieb is the winner of the 2002 Firecracker Award and a 2002 Lambda Finalist.

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LGBTLGBTMore like thisLess of this
Themes
feminismfeminismMore like thisLess of thisLGBTLGBTMore like thisLess of this
Setting
2000s2000sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 120 pages
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poetrypoetryMore like thisLess of this

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