The Dead Girls Speak In Unison

<p>"Danielle Pafunda abolishes the stereotype of prissy dainty girls in her thrilling poetry collection The Dead Girls Speak in Unison. Set in a surrealistic underworld takes on the collective voice of empowered female corpses and ironically uses quaint language and structure to describe the true nature of women. […] Pafunda’s collection leaves readers craving more of its 'rotten pages.' 'If you’re looking for something pretty' don’t look here. <strong>—<em>Verse</em> Brittany Capps  • </strong>"We don’t often see choral speakers but speaking in unison gives these 'girls' collective presence forcing us to face gender violence. [T]he girls gain a certain power in this…raw girls who bypass maturity who are as rank and offensive as possible. These unrefined girls are deeply unsettling." <strong>—<em>The Plot</em> Heidi Czerwiec • Danielle Pafunda</strong> is the author of <em>The Dead Girls Speak in Unison</em> (Bloof Books 2017) <em>Natural History Rape Museum</em> (Bloof Books 2013) <em>Manhater</em> (Dusie Press 2012) <em>Iatrogenic: Their Testimonies</em> (Noemi Press 2010) <em>My Zorba</em> (Bloof Books 2008) <em>Pretty Young Thing</em> (Soft Skull Press 2005) and the chapbooks <em>Cram</em> (Essay Press 2015) and <em>When You Left Me in the Rutted Terrain of Our Love at the Border Which I Could Not Cross Remaining a Citizen of this Corrupt Land</em> (Birds of Lace 2014). Her poems have appeared in three editions of <em>The Best American Poetry </em>and have been anthologized in <em>Beauty is a Verb</em>: <em>The Poetics of Disability </em>(Cinco Puntos Press 2011)   <em>Gurlesque: The New Grrly Grotesque Burlesque Poetics </em>(Saturnalia Books 2010) <em>Not for Mothers Only: Contemporary Poems on Child-Getting & Child Rearing</em> (Fence Books 2007) <em>Hick Poetics</em> (Lost Roads Press 2015) and <em>Please Excuse This Poem: 100 Poets for the Next Generation </em>(Penguin 2015).</p>