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My Dinner with Ron Jeremy

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My Dinner with Ron Jeremy by Kendra DeColo is a bold and provocative collection of poems that explore desire, connection, and the contradictions of modern life. Balancing tenderness with ferocity and cynicism with wonder, the poems disrupt misogynistic language to create a dazzling lyricism. Themes of loneliness, sexuality, and cultural critique weave through the book with raw intensity and ironic humour.
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This collection will resonate with readers interested in feminist poetry, contemporary social commentary, and those drawn to candid explorations of sexuality and human longing. Fans of innovative, challenging verse that reclaims language and challenges norms will find much to admire here.

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Prison teacher, former bar mitzvah dancer, and feminist erotica writer Kendra DeColo takes us through back alleyways, exploring desire, fetish, and intimacy.

Co-op is available. Reviews and Publicity: We will be hiring an outside publicist to complement our own in house publicity. Galleys will be mailed to 200 reviewers and also available for request. Periodicals and webpages who will be receiving copies are The New York Times, Coldfront, The New Yorker, Rumpus, Boston Review, Vice, Los Angeles Times, Rain Taxi, Bookslut, Paris Review, Rolling Stone. Media: A trailer for the book itself plus multiple videos for select poems will be produced. Galleys and Reviews: Video: Professional videos for both a single poem from the collection and a trailer for the general book will be made. Different celebrities from the TMR family will be contacted to participate.We will be approaching several celebrities and writers to record and/or blurb DeColo's poems, such as: John Waters Carrie Brownstein (Sleater-Kinney, Portlandia) Ron Jeremy Weird Al Yankovic David Blaine Harmony Korine Jesse Eisenberg David Berman Will Oldham Adrian Matejka Nick Flynn David Berman Patricia Smith Jamaal May Tarfia Faizullah Touring: DeColo will perform a minimum 30-city national tour to promote the book, including dates at the AWP LA, Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, Mission Creek Festival in Iowa City, and the Pitchfork Music Festival. TMB will also be trying to include DeColo on festival dates with Jack White and other TMR artists. For example, Janaka Stucky and Sampson Starkweather read at the Newport Folk Festival when Jack played in 2014. And performed at Pitchfork 2015 where several TMR artists performed. DeColo has already performed at TMR with rapper Mike Floss. Social Media: *TMB and TMR use all social media platforms regularly to post reviews, excerpts and profiles related to TMB authors. We also have sent exclusive audio downloads of select authors to our Vault subscription service. This download is always accompanied by blurbs, photos, links to relevant sites, and author bio. *Third Man Books Twitter 2,358 Followers *Third Man Records Twitter 118k Followers *Third Man Records FB 135,830 Likes *Third Man Records.com receives an average 3500 visits per day *Third Man Records Instagram has 64k Followers *Third Man Books.com is housed within ThirdManRecords.com

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Described by some as "erotica for feminists," and "enemy to family values," DeColo's poems convulse with desire and a longing for connection. Her work speaks to the particular loneliness of watching Fox News after you've masturbated too many times, depleted and filled with fascination and terror. Balancing tenderness with ferocity, cynicism with wonder, DeColo's poems disrupt and reclaim misogynistic language, creating a lyricism that dazzles and swoons, hoping to leave a stain deep enough to last.

The poems in Kendra DeColo's extraordinary second collection, My Dinner With Ron Jeremy, live in the sinuous space between want and propriety, fantasy and the 'Must Be 18' button on the poetry portal. There's love here, too, and John Coltrane, and abandonment in all its necessary circumstances, but sex is both brilliant talisman and vacant harbinger through it all. This often humorous, always provocative book puts a neon backlight on the filaments between what we have, what we have to do, and what we wish we could do, whether we can rewind and watch it again or not. – Adrian Matejka, Author of The Big Smoke, a 2014 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

"Marvelous poetry ... poems that would make great feature films." – Ron Jeremy, Actor

"Sex-positive feminist verse... DeColo manages to coax beauty and meaning from the absurd aching morass of human existence. It's not every writer who can emerge from these corners with anything approaching grace, much less deft and bracing poems such as these." – The Nashville Scene

"[DeColo's] work is ferocious and tender, demolishing patriarchal language and using the fragments to build riotous new worlds." – Bitch Magazine

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780991336142

Publisher: Third Man Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 September 2016

Country: United States

Imprint: Third Man Books

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 133.0mm

Height: 209.0mm

Weight: 170g

Pages: 100

About the Author

Kendra DeColo's first collection Thieves in the Afterlife (Saturnalia Books, 2014) was selected by Yusef Komunyakaa for the 2013 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize and named "Favorite Nashville Poetry Book of 2014" by the Nashville Scene. Her poems have appeared in Indiana Review, Copper Nickel, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. She has received awards and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the Millay Colony, and the Tennessee Arts Commission. She is book editor at Muzzle Magazine and guest teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

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