جزئیات کتاب
فرمت
جلد نرم
زبان
انگلیسی
منتشر شده
Jan 1, 2012
ناشر
Insert Blanc Press
توضیحات
Kept Women is the final chapbook of Los Angeles writer and artist Kate Durbin. It is a poem-tour of the Playboy mansion, a search for the missing bodies of Hugh Hefner's former girlfriends.
"The newest chapbook from Los Angeles-based Insert Blanc Press‘s PARROT series, this book is only 12 pages long but, like all of Durbin’s work, it is thoroughly Hollywood and completely feminist. In an eerie real-estate-catalog-meets-fairy-tale voice, the poems describe the Playboy mansion in exhausting detail, though never directly reference the infamous bunnies or Hef, creating a complex commentary on the objectifying Hefner franchise."
-Ms. Magazine, 12 Best Poetry Books of 2012
"Kept Women is in no way an overt reference to any film of Kubrick’s but it does operate atop a structuring absence in the same way Kubrick’s films do. But Durbin writes about something specific in Kept Women that the text does not obscure. The house being toured is the Playboy Mansion. The sinister territory into which I wandered as a reviewer was not to spite the role the Playboy Mansion plays in the book: it reinforced it. Kate Durbin is an artist on par with Kubrick and she is skilled enough to create the kind of vessels that those who regard her work as readers and viewers and tumblrers can fill with the full scale of their fear, repulsion, and fascination. If one is not prepared to face those feelings, they can overwhelm."
--Kari Larsen, Anobium
"The newest chapbook from Los Angeles-based Insert Blanc Press‘s PARROT series, this book is only 12 pages long but, like all of Durbin’s work, it is thoroughly Hollywood and completely feminist. In an eerie real-estate-catalog-meets-fairy-tale voice, the poems describe the Playboy mansion in exhausting detail, though never directly reference the infamous bunnies or Hef, creating a complex commentary on the objectifying Hefner franchise."
-Ms. Magazine, 12 Best Poetry Books of 2012
"Kept Women is in no way an overt reference to any film of Kubrick’s but it does operate atop a structuring absence in the same way Kubrick’s films do. But Durbin writes about something specific in Kept Women that the text does not obscure. The house being toured is the Playboy Mansion. The sinister territory into which I wandered as a reviewer was not to spite the role the Playboy Mansion plays in the book: it reinforced it. Kate Durbin is an artist on par with Kubrick and she is skilled enough to create the kind of vessels that those who regard her work as readers and viewers and tumblrers can fill with the full scale of their fear, repulsion, and fascination. If one is not prepared to face those feelings, they can overwhelm."
--Kari Larsen, Anobium
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