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Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award.
In Blowout, Denise Duhamel asks the same question that Frankie Lyman & the Teenagers asked back in 1954—"Why Do Fools Fall in Love?" Duhamel's poems readily admit that she is a love-struck fool, but also embrace the "crazy wisdom" of the Fool of the Tarot deck and the fool as entertainer or jester. From a kindergarten crush to a failed marriage and beyond, Duhamel explores the nature of romantic love and her own limitations. She also examines love through music, film, and history—Michelle and Barak Obama's inauguration and Cleopatra's ancient sex toy. Duhamel chronicles the perilous cruelties of love gone awry, but also reminds us of the compassion and transcendence in the aftermath. In "Having a Diet Coke with You," she asserts that "love poems are the most difficult poems to write / because each poem contains its opposite its loss / and that no matter how fierce the love of a couple / one of them will leave the other / if not through betrayal / then through death." Yet, in Blowout, Duhamel fiercely and foolishly embraces the poetry of love.
- Sales Rank: #472560 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-03-08
- Released on: 2013-03-08
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Booklist
Making art out of her life has worked very well for Duhamel, whose mostly long-lined, prosy, conversational poems have customarily trod a thin line between laughter and tears. The trouble with her modus operandi catches up with her in this collection, in which autobiographical determination obliges her to write about the end of her marriage, her subsequent depression, but also, fortunately, finding a new love. Like divorce, these poems aren’t that funny. But if this collection seems more narrowly focused, it still brims with Duhamel’s characteristic fixations—language (the British slang of “My New Chum”), poor or at least pathetic everyday behavior (losing hundreds between the ATM and her car), pop culture (movies, TV, eBay, pole dancing), unpleasant erotic memories (“Kindergarten Boyfriend,” “Or Whatever Your Final Destination May Be,” “Victor”)—and still presents the miracle of how serious a life embedded in humdrum and commercialized reality can be. In fact, one poem in particular, “Worst Case Scenario”—a solid block of successive personal disasters—negatively apotheosizes just such embeddedness. It takes your breath away. --Ray Olson
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“Brims with Duhamel’s characteristic fixations—language (the British slang of ‘My New Chum’), poor or at least pathetic everyday behavior (losing hundreds between the ATM and her car), pop culture (movies, TV, eBay, pole dancing), unpleasant erotic memories (‘Kindergarten Boyfriend,’ ‘Or Whatever Your Final Destination May Be,’ ‘Victor’)—and still presents the miracle of how serious a life embedded in humdrum and commercialized reality can be. In fact, one poem in particular, ‘Worst Case Scenario’—a solid block of successive personal disasters—negatively apotheosizes just such embeddedness. It takes your breath away.”
—Booklist
“Open this book, and you plunge into a maelstrom; Duhamel unspools line after long line about a bitter divorce and its aftermath. . . . While Duhamel leads us through the grubbiness of the breakup, the tone is more black comedy than self-pity. . . . A finely drawn if somewhat obsessive portrait for readers who like their poetry on the narrative side.”
—Library Journal
“Denise Duhamel’s Blowout chronicles the journey from heartbreak to new love but is so much more. It is a meditation on love and the sacrifices we make to create it in tenements, in condos, on boardwalks, and in our own hearts. Wearing her rare shade of Bali Brown lipstick, Duhamel strides through lovelorn streets like a Valkyrie, a straight-talking goddess, who takes on the teeming world and makes it her own.”
—Barbara Hamby
“The discerning exuberance that has long defined Denise Duhamel’s work is distressed in Blowout, but it is ultimately resilient. These poems traverse the distance between loss (the first poem is ‘How Will It End’) and praise (the last poem is ‘Ode to Eyebrows’) with the urgency of someone ‘trying to remember the exact wording of [her] fortune.’ Duhamel’s poems continue shouldering difficult, disorderly subjects with remarkable imagination and candor. She remains one of the best poets writing today. Blowout is a devastating book.”
—Terrance Hayes
“Blowout is a terrific book of poems that delivers the pleasures of a good novel. Its protagonist is brave and resilient. She’s observant and curious about the world no matter what happens to her. She’s unsparing and hilarious. Whether wrenched by uncoupling, or catapulted back to childhood, or plummeting from fiscal cliffs, or shooting the rapids of postmodern romance, she is our hero. She never retreats, never turns bitter, gives everyone and everything (no matter how painful) its due, never losing eloquence or nerve. If I had a daughter old enough to read what a woman’s life really is, the glory and the comedy and the hell of it, I’d give her this book.”
—Amy Gerstler
“Duhamel is one of my favorite poets and one of the most captivating, comforting, challenging writers I have ever read. . . . ‘Blowout’ is as momentous, as staggering, as devastating and triumphant as the word implies.”
—The Iowa Review (Julie Marie Wade)
“[A] knockout . . . Duhamel puts language on a taut highwire, gives it a spotlight, and makes it dazzle. . . . Throughout ‘Blowout,’ Duhamel simultaneously marries heartbreak to humor. The book is that rare and fabulous blend of conversational talk and burnished lyricism. There is a wisdom in ‘Blowout’ born from its talky gorgeousness. . . . Beauty is always risky, and with Duhamel at the wheel, it’s also always where we will be delivered. I’ll follow Duhamel anywhere she leads.”
—Florida Book Review
“Duhamel’s poetry is admirable for so many reasons; she’s playful and wise and funny and heartbreaking all at once. What more do you want from poetry?”
—Chamber Four
About the Author
Denise Duhamel is professor of English at Florida International University and the author of numerous poetry collections, including Ka-Ching, Two and Two, and Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems. Duhamel has written five chapbooks of poetry and coedited, with Maureen Seaton and David Trinidad, Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry. The recipient of numerous awards, including an NEA fellowship, she has been anthologized widely, including Penguin Academics: Contemporary American Poetry; Seriously Funny: Poems about Love, Death, Religion, Art, Politics, Sex, and Everything Else; and Word of Mouth: Poems Featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” Duhamel is guest editor for The Best American Poetry 2013.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
a wry, honest and human look at divorce
By C. O. Aptowicz
Early in Denise Duhamel's "Blowout," she bemoans the unlucky coincidence that her previous book, "Ka-Ching" -- a poetry book which had a strong theme of money throughout it -- was slated to published just a few months AFTER another poetry book (by the poet Katy Lederer) which also dealt with the theme of money had garnered much praise, critical attention and even a write up in the New Yorker. "Just my luck," she wrote.
I couldn't help but think it must have felt like deja vu when "Blow Out," her latest offering which deals with the aftermath of her marriage ending at 16 years, comes out just a few months after Sharon Olds's critically acclaimed "Stag's Leap," which also deals with the aftermath of the poet's decades long marriage. "Just my luck," she must have thought... again!
But in the same way that everything you love about Sharon Olds sings so brightly & brilliantly with "Stag's Leap," everything you love about Denise Duhamel is radiant and wonder-soaked in "Blowout."
I fell in love with Duhamel's work because its humanity -- its frizzy hair, its stumbles on the side walk, its wild preparation for things that never happen, its ability to find meaning and hope in the everyday. Duhamel always seemed to be capturing her poems mid-stride, and there is a manic, beautiful energy which infuse her work. With other poets, I imagine them writing their poems tucked into a quiet corner in their library, or sipping tea at quiet kitchen table. I always imagine that Duhamel is writing hers on the backs of receipts, tapping them into the notes section of her phone, or creating them in her head as she runs from class to class, hoping she doesn't forget them before she puts them to paper. And I love that about them, and about her.
With "Blow Out," we see Duhamel reaching new heights of honesty and self-reflection. She tracks the dissolution of her marriage, moving both forward and backward through time. We see her identify warning signs, recall last moments, recall first moments after, struggle, weep, stumble, fall and get back up again -- all with Duhamel's trademark tender wryness. "You are attached to your husband by a cord running from your stomach to his," a psychic tells her in one poem, "Everything night I want you to work on loosening that cord before you fall asleep, OK?" I feel like this book is a product of all that hard, strange but necessary loosening, and another incredible book to add to Duhamel's incomparable stable of true, human poetry books about what it is like to be a woman in the 21st century.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
The Girl Can't Help It
By Roger Lathbury
Denise Duhamel's first book was called Smile, and irrespective of topic her succeeding poems or collections make her readers do just that. Her infectious, inviting, superbly paced poems are just plain FUN! You enter her world, in Blowout as in previous collections, and immediately have a friend, sometimes an intimate friend ("My New Chum").
She is a poet of memory and lists, both to exuberant comical effect. "Kindergarten Boyfriend" and "Fourth Grade Boyfriend" from the present volume, join a hilarious account of a ride after a poetry reading in Nebraska ("You're Looking at the Love Interest") and female chit chat with her neighbors in Florida. As to lists, this collection offers one long list poem, the very funny "Recession Commandments," a take-off on the canonical Ten--a diverting, surprising, original, terminable list.
Within the confines of her free verse, sometimes prose-y, infrequently prose poems, there is verbal and formal play, puns, anaphora, polysyndeton, and more. Duhamel knows when to vary, how to keep the reader riveted. As with all but the supreme masters, she has her boundaries. If you want metaphysical conceit or lyric Romantic ecstasy, go to Donne or Keats. However, if you want girls' night out, the Johns won't do; Duhamel will, no matter what the topic. To quote the title of a film, as Denise Duhamel loves to do (has any poet since Frank O'Hara loved pop culture and Frank O'Hara as much?), The Girl Can't Help It.
Which brings me to the intense, first part of Blowout. More of the same but with a twist is the gist. (Duhamel's lineated poetry does not rhyme but sometimes her prose poems do, as in "Worst Case Scenario.") This first section, which justifies the title Blowout, is slightly different. Duhamel, not an especially private poet, is here in unusually confessional mode. A divorce happened. However, since it happened to Denise Duhamel, the artist trumps. The result is fresh. The usual plangent record of Self-Centered ♂ and Suffering Wronged ♀ played for all it's worth--the stance that makes most readers want to retch at the sight of another book on Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath--is transformed into poems. You don't always need an objective correlative! (Characteristically, Duhamel compares her own situation to the break-up of Madonna and Guy Ritchie.)
Actually, evidence in Blowout suggests that an unbalanced SC ♂ did leave SW ♀, but in these accounts there is not a shred of the vindictive or lachrymose. The crisis, seen with energy, is touching, outrageous, shocking, sad, and funny but never self-pitying, thanks to the poetic skills of Denise Duhamel. It gives the verse an urgency that adds a new note to Duhamel's repertoire even as the diverting surface holds. Moreover, the end of Blowout happily rounds out the episode, so the volume in addition has the shape and closure of satisfying fiction.
Never have I been so glad that--well--The Girl Can't Help It.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Duhamel's "Self-Portrait in Hydrogen Peroxide"
By Shawnte
Denise Duhamel's Blowout opens with her poem "How It Will End" where a husband and wife witness another couple's fight ("We can't hear what they're saying, / but it is as good as a movie") and begin projecting their own issues and grievances in a brilliant mixture of craft and confession. Her conversational style is the deceptive kind that requires much work and skill to end up sounding so casual (" `She has to just get it out of her system,' / my husband laughs, but I'm not laughing."). This poem was deservedly included in the 2009 Best American Poetry anthology and perfectly sets the tone for the rest of this intimate collection that chronicles the dissolution of her marriage.
The book is a "Self-Portrait in Hydrogen Peroxide" divided into three sections, with Duhamel finding therapeutic solace in the films of her "postdivorce Netflix recovery" and the parallels with Madonna's public split from Guy Ritchie (who walked away "saying he didn't want her money / because he was a macho British dude / unlike my husband / who was neither macho nor British") in part one, before ultimately finding new love in part three ("Having a Diet Coke with You").
But as with any good trilogy, it's the middle section that dazzles most, so part two becomes her Empire Strikes Back, as she revisits her earliest notions of couplehood (in poems from "Kindergarten Boyfriend" to "Fourth Grade Boyfriend" and "Lower East Side Boyfriend") and detours through history ("Cleopatra Invented The First Vibrator") and language (with the English-for-Americans poem "My New Chum") until her worst-case-scenario year concludes with the death of her Father.
All the while, Duhamel's sense of humor is the buoy that keeps her work from ever sinking into self-pity, which only evokes a deeper sense of empathy.
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