Rouge Pulp

Rouge Pulp explores notions of body and beauty, birth and death, in a contemporary America driven by its contradictions: material plenty and spiritual lack.

Dorothy Barresi writes about strippers, hair salons, cancer, good credit ratings, cockfights, childbirth, maternal love, and war.

Her poems take the world's brutal vitality as their music, and they refuse to despair.

Author: Dorothy Barresi
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 10/06/2002
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.00w x 0.28d
ISBN: 9780822957898

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 10/27/2002 pg. 29

About the Author
Dorothy Barresi is the author of four previous books of poetry: American Fanatics; Rouge Pulp; The Post-Rapture Diner, winner of an American Book Award; and All of the Above, winner of the Barnard New Women Poets Prize. She is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes and Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council. She is professor of English and creative writing at California State University, Northridge.