The Ravenous Audience

By Kate Durbin

"Durbin's debut volume sizzles . . . Throughout this deeply feminist, groundbreaking collection, she employs both the elemental forces of her intellect and a vigorous intensity of startling imagery to implode or explode conventional notions of sexuality and womanhood . . . This is a book that singes the fingertips." --Maurya Simon, author of Cartographies

Little Red Riding Hood, Jezebel, Catherine Breillat's Fat Girl, Marilyn Monroe, Amelia Earhart, Pier Paolo Pasolini's Christ--these are only a few of the archetypal and pop cultural characters that populate Kate Durbin's strange and mesmerizing coming-of-age poetry collection, The Ravenous Audience.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933354887
• ISBN13: 9781933354880
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

A truly unique read

Some people take their feminism in another direction - and Kate Durbin is one of those people. "The Ravenous Audience" is her collection of poetry offering her own unique view of feminism which is in no way pretty. A truly unique read, "The Ravenous Audience" is a must read for any poetry fan who wants discussion of current events. "Silence": I thought I heard a plane. F began to scream. He screamed until I/slapped him and his head snapped back. By then, the sound was/ gone.//G, was that you?//Come back.