Bleeding Optimist

by Mary Burger

Fiction. "I feel compelled to tell what happened. Men make such fools of us their perfidy assumes Debordean proportions, and Mary Burger's been there, done that with a vengeance. The whole world's looking for a scandal, and any sordid tale will do . This story of 'suspense but no consequence' counterposes a comic love tragedy with the spectacular news of our day: the OJ/Nicole story, the Oklahoma City bombing. As a stylist, Mary Burger's brilliant and hardbitten, like the broken nails of my croupier. She's the Dorothy Parker of poetry" - Kevin Killian.

91 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995