52339X1 Saturnalia Books: 2008. 88 pages. Softcover. Brand new book. 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. The Table of Contents of this book is as follows: Love Poem to Sinister Moments ¥ Love Poem to the Word Lonesome ¥ Love Poem to a Blank Space ¥ Love Poem to America ¥ Love Poem to the Phrase Let's get coffee ¥ Love Poem to Doo-Wop ¥ Love Poem to Longing ¥ Love Poem to Fear Project Yourself Here ¥ Domesticity ¥ Cross-Country Song ¥ While You Sleep, I Watch Myself Die ¥ Advice on Travel ¥ This Is Not an Elegy ¥ Fat Tuesday ¥ Retrospect ¥ Invention ¥ Apostrophe to the First Gray Hair ¥ Adolescence ¥ We Are in Love ¥ Memphis ¥ Epithalamium ¥ Endearments ¥ Why You Love the Annoyances in Your Dreams ¥ The man in the photograph ¥ In Which I Imagine Myself Into a Western ¥ In Which I Imagine Myself Into a Slasher Flick ¥ In Which I Imagine Myself Into a Film Noir ¥ In Which I Imagine Myself Into a David Lynch Movie ¥ The Poem I Cannot Write For You ¥ The Heaven I Hope For ¥ Graceland ¥ Nor Hell a Fury ¥ Evolution ¥ Postcards Nos. 1-6 ¥ Conscience ¥ Perseids ¥ Instinct ¥ Ubi Sunt "Quien es?" ¥ "Well, gentlemen, you are about to see a baked Appel." ¥ "Pardonnez-moi, monsieur." ¥ This is funny." ¥ "Goodbye, my friends! I go to glory." ¥ "Stopped." ¥ "Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something." Catherine Pierce grew up in Delaware and now lives in Starkville, Mississippi, where she is an assistant professor of creative writing at Mississippi State University. She is the author of a chapbook, Animals of Habit (2004. "Catherine Pierce has written an exhilarating book, one that rewards its lucky reader with intelligence and lyric grace and dance-hall, crushed corsage swing. A pure delight."ÑLynne McMahon ISBN: 0975499076 $16.00USD
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