Pop Corpse! by Lara Glenum

by Lara Glenum

Poetry. Drama. "Father lend me your megabone / & I'll lend u my shotgun mouth." A radiant brew of emoticon opera, fairytale fan-fiction, and chat-room flame war, POP CORPSE! follows a heroine mermaid on her devoutly disarming search for "realness." Along the way, Glenum dismantles pieties of both the left and the right, proposing new models of configuring text, voice, body and species-hood for those who swim in the increasingly fetid waters of the 21st century.

Genres: Poetry, Plays

Paperback

First published May 1, 2013

About the author

Lara Glenum is the author of four full-length poetry collections: The Hounds of No, Maximum Gaga, Pop Corpse, and All Hopped Up On Fleshy Dumdums. She is also the co-editor of Gurlesque: the new grrly, grotesque, burlesque poetics, an anthology of contemporary women’s poetry and visual art, and the upcoming digital second edition, Electric Gurlesque.

She has been the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Prague and an NEA Translation Fellowship partner. She's currently an Associate Professor of English at LSU, where she's one of the directors of Delta Mouth, a national literary festival.

Reviews

[Megan · Rating 5 out of 5]

disney should make a movie out of this

[Kathleen · Rating 4 out of 5]

"in frankentime I wag my humanalia
in yr foaming mouth

In foamtime I am a narcoleptic monstrette
falling asleep mid-spasm"

[Donald Armfield · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really was not expecting this weird style of bizarre play or acts like something you’d see on Adult Swim.

If the things under the sea make this type of noise I’ll take a front row seat, in front of the red curtain. And sing along at the “Yum Factory with my fake wounds from red markers doing embarrassing things with baby squid.”

Weirdly enjoyable!

[Victoria · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic voyage 20,000 leagues under the influence of popular culture, internet slang and other language slimes, teenage melodrama, female sexuality, body issues... pink like a gushing pustule... snatch it up... read it and you too can be "hawt 4evah"

[Erin Lyndal Martin · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's just perfect, the pose it strikes between bawdy entertainment and social commentary, how it never gets weighty but always has substance.

[PJ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Scrotum pops

[Brianna · Rating 2 out of 5]

I don't think I understand what I just read.

[Jeune Fille · Rating 5 out of 5]

When u r a GIRL
yr body is a CRIME LAB

they PHOTOGRAPH u at every point

[Syd ⭐️ · Rating 4 out of 5]

My entry into the gurlesque. Genuinely life changing. I know it’s gross, but it works. An exploration of femininity and womanhood like no other.