Famous Last Words

Famous Last Words

Catherine Pierceâ€™s debut, Famous Last Words, is a love letter to life, poetry, and all things American. Beginning with a series of literal love poems (to the word â€œlonesomeâ€, to blank space, to doo-wop, to fear, etc.), Pierce whisks the reader on a cross-country road trip (both literally and figuratively) that takes a tangential spree into a series of genre films and ends with gallows humor in the re-imagining of the events surrounding the famous last words of icons like Billy the Kid, Marie Antoinette, Isadora Duncan, and Pancho Villa. From start to finish, Pierceâ€™s book is a delight to the senses, a playful, nostalgic dance that ends with the reader wanting more.

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