Married to the Icepick Killer: A Poet in Hollywood

By Carol Muske-Dukes

Poetry and Hollywood seem like the ultimate odd couple, and once upon a time the accomplished poet, novelist, and critic Carol Muske-Dukes might have agreed. But no longer. This is a collection of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375507116
• ISBN13: 9780375507113
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Random House
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.7"

Customer Reviews

Cambridge Turn On Your Brain

Being familiar with and a fan of Muske-Dukes' poetry and fiction--have you read "Dear Digby"? If not, why not?--I can't understand the brief, snide "criticism" of one of her customer reviewers. The essays in "Icepick" celebrate, disect and illuminate a cultural mish-mash of writers and writing history in California--and offer insight into the "writing scene" in LA, so closely knit as it is with movies, ocean, earthquakes and sun and a literary history overlooked! It is not enough to pass off an accomplished author's work in one snide line. It is misleading and unfortunate. It is obvious from CMD's essays her passionate belief in the art of poetry, of writing, and the life of a writer in sprawling Los Angeles, passion that makes for an engaging read.

engaging title, lively book

Acerbic, funny, culturally aware and crackling with insight, as are Ms. Muske Dukes's poems and criticism