Blood Sugar

(Paperback)

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Go ahead, try to resist the long-awaited and expanded reissue of Nicole Blackman's classic poetry collection. We dare you.

"Nicole Blackmans spoken-word vignettes conjure up bleak, dangerous, death-haunted plots with matter-of-fact detail . . . Blackman has her own gift for tersely poetic aphorismand a gift for turning nightmares into revelations." New York Times

"[Blackman's] apocalyptic, spoken-word electrolysis . . . is a biting diagnosis of modern society." Rolling Stone

Blood Sugar is a disturbing and evocative collection of selected poems from one of the most important and influential poets and performance artists of her generation.The poems in Blood Sugar were selected from Blackman's enormously popular chapbooks Pretty, Sweet, and Nice. This new edition includes a bonus essay and short story. It is futile to resist Nicole Blackman's brutal accounts of obsession and beauty. So give in.

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"The incinerating NYC poetess Nicole Blackman always leaves blood on the tracks. [Blood Sugar] is gritty, transcendent verse." --Boston Phoenix

"[Blackman's] best work is a shadow-strewn kaleidoscope of angst, anguish, and survivorship . . . Amazingly, for all the fury in these poems, they are devoid of hatred, and as a result, their ultimate impact is less paralyzing than cathartic." --LA Weekly

"Beautiful, hypnotic . . . violence and sex intermingle and all pleasures are suspect." --Entertainment Weekly

Author Bio

Nicole Blackman is a New York City-born performance artist, poet, author, vocalist, teacher, and former music industry publicist. Her writing has appeared in numerous anthologies including Brooklyn Noir, Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Verses That Hurt, and Poetry Nation. Her work as a performance artist includes Bloodwork, The Courtesan Tales, Harm's Way, and Beloved. Blackman has performed on over fifteen albums, including recordings with Golden Palominos, KMFDM, Recoil, Bill Laswell, and Scanner. She is also a voiceover performer, heard regularly on a slew of commercials and channels, including Saturday Night Live and major campaigns for Chrysler, Ford, Lysol, and Verizon, and TV stations including Turner Classic Movies, Discovery Health Channel, Cartoon Network, Court TV, and PBS.