＂A dazzling, edgy, laugh-out-loud memoir from the award-winning poet and novelist that reflects on writing, drinking, dating, and more, Kim Addonizio is used to being exposed. As a writer of
provocative poems and stories, she has encountered success along with snark: one critic dismissed her as ＂Charles Bukowski in a sundress.＂ (＂Why not Walt Whitman in a sparkly tutu?＂ she muses.)
Now, in this utterly original memoir in essays, she opens up to chronicle the joys and indignities in the life of a writer wandering through middle age. Addonizio vividly captures moments of
inspiration at the writing desk (or bed) and adventures on the road--from a champagne-and-vodka-fueled one-night stand at a writing conference to sparsely attended readings at remote Midwestern
colleges. Her crackling, unfiltered wit brings colorful life to pieces like ＂What Writers Do All Day,＂ ＂How to Fall for a Younger Man,＂ and ＂Necrophilia＂ (that is, sexual attraction to men who
are dead inside). And she turns a tender yet still comic eye to her family: her father, who sparked her love of poetry; her mother, a former tennis champion who struggled through Parkinson’s at
the end of her life; and her daughter, who at a young age chanced upon some erotica she had written for Penthouse. At once intimate and outrageous, Addonizio’s memoir radiates all the wit and
heartbreak and ever-sexy grittiness that her fans have come to love--and that new readers will not soon forget＂--
