Deaths For The Ladies

by Norman Mailer

being

a run
of poems
short poems
very short poems
and turns of prose

entitled
more formally

Deaths
for
the
Ladies

and
other
disasters

Genres: Poetry, Fiction, Literature

256 pages, paperback

First published January 1, 1962

About the author

Norman Kingsley Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, and film director.

Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of creative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism, but which covers the essay to the nonfiction novel. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize twice and the National Book Award once. In 1955, Mailer, together with Ed Fancher and Dan Wolf, first published The Village Voice, which began as an arts- and politics-oriented weekly newspaper initially distributed in Greenwich Village. In 2005, he won the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from The National Book Foundation.

Reviews

[Geoff Winston Leghorn Balme · Rating 3 out of 5]

You open it, read a few lines, laugh, and have to own it, having never realized it even existed.
It has that feel of old Dadaist poetry, similiar to Takahashi, though often more straightforwardly funny.

It is a little
unnerving
when reading
about
the pen-knife
so prominent
in his poor wife's
flesh by
his own hand
called love

[José Gouveia · Rating 4 out of 5]

I never knew Norman Mailer published any books of poetry! It's like a cross between e.e. cummings and T.S. Elliot.

[Philip Fracassi · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like owning this book, it's kinda cool and hip like a jazz-lounge martini. And, like a martini, you want to sip it every now and then, not just drink it all, as that might make you a bit queezy.