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By Myself
By D.A.Powell and David Trinidad. Turtle Point, $9 paperback.
A masterfully assembled bricolage and a beautiful monster, By Myself is the swift-moving brainchild of two excellent poets, who constructed this story of a fame-craving performer out of 300 sentences borrowed from autobiographies, mostly by celebrities. Because the sources include Goldie Hawn, Ronald Reagan, Gertrude Stein, William Shatner and Rosie O’Donnell, it should come as no surprise that Powell and Trinidad’s narrator switches genders, eras, geographical settings, sexualities. Even so, this slyly constructed narrative holds together as a high-drama yarn propelled by star power and old-fashioned chutzpah. Call it a polymorphous example of American self-reinvention, or just a perversely manipulated portrait of showbiz moxie.—Michael Miller
Time Out New York / Issue 731 : Oct 1–7, 2009No comments yet
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