{"product_id":"madame-deluxe","title":"Madame Deluxe","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #9a6372;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePoetry by Tenaya Darlington\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eSeptember 1, 2000 • 7 x 10 • 96 pages • 978-1-56689-105-9\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eThis electrifying debut screams and snickers, slinks to the couch and growls, struts on stage and strips.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMadame Deluxe\u003c\/em\u003e is all things loud and leopard print. Inspired by years of watching drag shows, Darlington evokes a persona who wanders the periphery of femininity, catcalling paradigms from Venus to Victoria’s Secret. Striking out against artifice, staging her own myth, \u003cem\u003eMadame Deluxe\u003c\/em\u003e is a she-male Vesuvius. Expect scat, expect 350-lb. poems, expect a guide to the pleasures of leather and a manual for modern marriage. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this raucous debut collection, Darlington shocks, seduces, and intrigues us—spurring us to rethink our ideas about women and feminity. \u003cem\u003eMadame Deluxe\u003c\/em\u003e was selected by Lawson Fusao Inada for the National Poetry Series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTenaya Darlington is the author of \u003cem\u003eMadame Deluxe.\u003c\/em\u003e Her work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eScribner’s Best of the Fiction Workshops 1998\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eIn Brief: Short Takes on the Personal,\u003c\/em\u003e as well as in the\u003cem\u003e Chronicle of Higher Education, Atlanta Review, Beloit Poetry Journal,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSouthern Poetry Review.\u003c\/em\u003e She is the features editor for \u003cem\u003eIsthmus\u003c\/em\u003e in Madison, Wisconsin, and the former managing editor for \u003cem\u003eBeloit Fiction Journal.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"text\"\u003e“Tenaya Darlington, Madame Deluxe, is a truthsayer with attitude and an agenda to boot. She’s a charmer, an alarmer, a kick in the pants, a hoot. She embodies generations, furthers traditions; it’s heartening to know what poetry can still do.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Lawson Fusao Inada\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Tenaya Darlington delivers curveball camp and Technicolor screwball ‘sonnets’ with pure post-feminist fun. A genius at genre-bending and gender-bending.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Denise Duhamel\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“On these street-smart and classically savvy pages, we witness high and low culture bed-down to make a new millennial love-child whose tongue will not be ruled.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Timothy Liu\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CHPbeta","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49954219753714,"sku":null,"price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1475\/9808\/products\/Madame_Deluxe.jpg?v=1515101097","url":"https:\/\/coffeehousepress.org\/products\/madame-deluxe","provider":"Coffee House Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}