
For example a LCS may buy a case of Tribute. In "Having a Diet Coke with You," she asserts that "love poems are the most difficult poems to write / because each poem contains its opposite its loss / and that no matter how fierce the love of a couple / one of them will leave the other / if not through betrayal / then through death." Yet, in Blowout, Duhamel fiercely and foolishly embraces the poetry of love. He has told me on a few occasions that Blowout actually buys boxes back from other LCS on dealernet that are sold back to them not as complete cases.

Duhamel chronicles the perilous cruelties of love gone awry, but also reminds us of the compassion and transcendence in the aftermath. She also examines love through music, film, and historyMichelle and Barak Obama's inauguration and Cleopatra's ancient sex toy. Book Review of : Summer Blowout Bella Shaughnessy is addicted to lipstick with names like My Chihuahua Bites and Kiss My Lips, an occupational hazard, since she works as a stylist and makeup artist for her familys small chain of beauty salons in Marshbury, Massachusetts, along with her four half-brothers and -sisters. From a kindergarten crush to a failed marriage and beyond, Duhamel explores the nature of romantic love and her own limitations. In Blowout, Denise Duhamel asks the same question that Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers asked back in 1954"Why Do Fools Fall in Love?" Duhamel's poems readily admit that she is a love-struck fool, but also embrace the "crazy wisdom" of the Fool of the Tarot deck and the fool as entertainer or jester.

Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award.
