{"product_id":"dead-girl-cameo-isbn-9780593733998","title":"Dead Girl Cameo","description":"\u003cb\u003eA dazzling docupoetic debut collection interweaving personal loss with the life stories of Aaliyah Haughton, Whitney Houston, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, Phyllis Hyman, Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, and others to explore sexuality, survival, queer mourning, and the afterlives of stardom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Poet m. mick powell’s debut collection . . . resurrects their vivid lives and artistry to paint a more humanizing picture of their legacy.”—\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eDEBUTIFUL \u003c\/i\u003eAND NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“I made, of my bones, an earth for you: turned the oceans\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eyour favorite shade of light, that deepened, nearly bruised\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003edusk. Reflected in my palms, what I’ve made into water\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eglows amethyst”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn m. mick powell’s polyphonic, haunting debut, a chorus of voices conjures up intimate pop herstories to map how the poet’s queer Black girlhood was molded by their memory. With tender reverence, powell meditates on the deaths of her own beloveds while reflecting on the many stages of an icon’s life: How did these women challenge conventional representations of Black femininity and transform the musical landscape? How did they navigate abuse and alienation in the limelight? How do the mythologies that survive them establish afterlives of queer femme possibility?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough sensual imagery, speculative verse, and splendid wordplay, \u003ci\u003eDead Girl Cameo\u003c\/i\u003e takes us beyond the headlines, innovating a Black feminist poetic that traverses the richly textured realms of grief, girlhood, love, widowing, femme friendship, and queer fandom.“powell is a ferocious writer with an unapologetic voice. She explores how we treat our heroes, and what heroes do and do not owe us. The poems are odes to those we lost (Whitney Houston, Left Eye) and a reminder that we’re all hiding pain. Moving and refreshing. A knockout\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Debutiful\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In poet m. mick powell’s debut collection, \u003ci\u003eDead Girl Cameo\u003c\/i\u003e, the deaths of iconic Black female singers and musicians—Whitney Houston, Aaliyah, Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopes, Billie Holiday and Phyllis Hyman—go beyond the headlines. Powell resurrects their vivid lives and artistry to paint a more humanizing picture of their legacy while exploring themes of sexuality, survival, grief and stardom.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This lyrical and haunting debut poetry collection follows the lives of music icons, including Aaliyah, Selena, Whitney Houston, and more. It reflects on the work they have done that impacted the author’s childhood as a queer Black woman. These icons transformed more than just the music industry; their artistry shaped generations of fans beyond their time.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eShe Reads\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDead Girl Cameo: A Love Song in Poems\u003c\/i\u003e is a poetry collection described as ‘docupoetry,’ a form that blends existing material with the poet’s own words, much like found footage in film. In this work, Powell creates a love letter to Black musicians whose legacies endure far beyond their tragically short lives. Drawing on interviews with Tammi Terrell, Minnie Riperton, and others, the poems form a textured collage where archival voices meet lyrical reflection. The collection is deeply personal to Powell, yet it resonates with readers through a shared parasocial connection to these powerful women.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePlatform\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A bricolage of ghosts, stardust, music hits, and generational trauma, \u003ci\u003eDead Girl Cameo\u003c\/i\u003e offers a unique path to communication with ancestors and asks those still living to consider what becomes of discarded idols.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Studded with perfect little jewels of looking, of feeling, of deep knowing . . . These poems haunt, and celebrate, and mourn, and, to borrow the poet’s own language, invent ‘other words for gold.’ I adore this book, and I look forward to seeing its work in the world.”\u003cb\u003e—Safia Elhillo, author of \u003ci\u003eGirls That Never Die\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDead Girl Cameo\u003c\/i\u003e is not only an interrogation of the way society and celebrity culture fails girls, particularly those who are Black and queer; it is also a generous imagining of the lives that are possible when girlhood is protected and tended to.”\u003cb\u003e—Brittany Rogers, author of\u003ci\u003e Good Dress\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An orchestra of tenderness marks the brilliance of this book. mick is a star.”\u003cb\u003e—Camonghne Felix, author of \u003ci\u003eDyscalculia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Through an innovative blend of queer feminist theory, collage, and docupoetics, powell pens a gorgeous elegy to some of our greats and revives them in perpetuity by countering their life’s violence with a love that is pure, queer, and infinite.”\u003cb\u003e—Dr. Taylor Byas, author of \u003ci\u003eI Done Clicked My Heels Three Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDead Girl Cameo\u003c\/i\u003e stitches many tender odes, counternarratives, and snapshots of Black girlhood—from the violence to the beauty of it—into the warmest protective quilt for its subjects. powell’s formal and lyrical prowess make \u003ci\u003eDead Girl Cameo\u003c\/i\u003e a propulsive and genius debut that I’ll never stop thinking about.”\u003cb\u003e—Jae Nichelle, author of\u003ci\u003e God Themselves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDead Girl Cameo \u003c\/i\u003eis a revelation, returning pounds of flesh to our fallen icons with a lyric pulse strong enough to resurrect. Its pages reach through the mycelial network of Black queer girlhood, recovering the fugitive eros of their lives.”\u003cb\u003e—Kemi Alabi, author of \u003ci\u003eAgainst Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003em. mick powell\u003c\/b\u003e is a queer Black Cape Verdean femme, a poet, an artist, an Aries, and author of the chapbooks \u003ci\u003ethreesome in the last Toyota Celica\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003echronicle the body\u003c\/i\u003e. Their poems have been nominated for the \u003ci\u003eBest of the Net Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e and a Pushcart Prize, and appear in \u003ci\u003eRHINO\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMuzzle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUp the Staircase Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. mick is a professor of gender and sexuality studies at the University of Connecticut and an adjunct in Bay Path University’s MFA in creative nonfiction writing program. A former Tin House Resident, she enjoys chasing waterfalls and being in love.\u003cb\u003edead girl interview\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat gave you your girlhood? What took it away? \u003cbr\u003eWhere was your mother? \u003cbr\u003eWhat do you see when I say “scarlet”? \u003cbr\u003eDo you believe in the stars? \u003cbr\u003eAre there other ways you wish you died? \u003cbr\u003eCan you tell me again, about the dream? \u003cbr\u003eAnd the morning after, when the moon set? \u003cbr\u003eTell me about your closest encounter. \u003cbr\u003eWhen did you meet her? \u003cbr\u003eShe is the first person you thought of—how tenderly did you touch? \u003cbr\u003eWhat world did you invent to survive? \u003cbr\u003eWhat world did you invent to satiate? \u003cbr\u003eTell me about your own curious rage. \u003cbr\u003eFinish the sentence: “in my archive of desire, I keep ________.” \u003cbr\u003eWhat color is the thing that haunts you most? \u003cbr\u003eWould you let me hold the memory?","brand":"One World","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233074688229,"sku":"NP9780593733998","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593733998.jpg?v=1767724823","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/dead-girl-cameo-isbn-9780593733998","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}