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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872865716 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100755360 02 0872865711 03 9780872865716 15 9780872865716 BC 1 A01 Liebegott, Ali Ali Liebegott <p> Ali Liebegott is the author of the award-winning books <em>The Beautifully Worthless</em> and <em>The IHOP Papers</em>. In 2010 she took a train trip across America interviewing female poets for a project titled, <em>The Heart Has Many Doors</em>; excerpts from these interviews are posted monthly on <em>The Believer Logger</em>. Along with a reprint of her road classic <em>The Beautifully Worthless,</em> her newest novel <em>Cha-Ching!</em> is the latest release from City Lights/Sister Spit. In addition, she is the founding editor at Writers Among Artists whose first publication, <em>Faggot Dinosaur</em>, was released in 2012.</p> 01 eng 164 00 164 03 20 gay;lesbian;poetry;women 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Gay & Lesbian 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Poetry 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Women 01 <p> <strong>Winner of the 2005 Lambda Literary Award for Debut Lesbian Fiction</strong><br /> <br /> "<em>The Beautifully Worthless</em> is an outrageous act of kindness."—<strong>Eileen Myles
</strong></p> <p> "She's insanely talented, it's mad. <em>The Beautifully Worthless</em> crisscrosses the USA, like <em>Close to the Knives</em>, like Kerouac, desperately seeking out everything occluded and driven, a frenzy of seeking frozen into poetry. "—<strong>Kevin Killian</strong></p> <p> <em>"The Beautifully Worthless</em> is a genre-smudging, American Mythos-screwing hell of a book. Never falling into the twee or succumbing to the snarky, Liebegott's wit, astuteness and assured poetics come together to create this marvel of empathy & mercy, decency & heart; it affirms the possibility that hope is tenable and that living is worth the life itself. This is an atlas for every queerly vagabond soul, a pillow book for the hopelessly heartweary."—<strong>Justin Chin</strong></p> <p> "Ali Liebegott's <em>The Beautifully Worthless</em> is a mixed-genre tour de force, a classic yet subverted road story, an original and fierce claim on this country, and the generator of an unusual, moving canon. It's saturated with Liebegott's signature gifts: a peerless sense of humor and a capacity to bear witness to and articulate the darkest corners of fear and despair. I stand in awe of Liebegott's talent and heart. She is one of the best we've got."—<strong>Maggie Nelson</strong></p> <p> "Her witty, compassionate voice haunts me like no other." —<strong>Joan Larkin</strong></p> <p> A runaway waitress leaves her lover, grabs her dog and hits the highway. Liebegott maps her travels in a series of hilarious and heartbreaking letters to the girl she left behind, and some of the most exquisite poetry written about love, heartache and madness.</p> 02 Back in print! Ali Liebegott's award-winning epic road poem has been compared to Jack Kerouac and David Wojnarowicz. 08 <p> "I'd recommend the book to dreamers, and lovers, and someone who likes dirty cars and hot sunlight and how it feels to finally be taking it one day at a time."-- Carmen, <em>Autostraddle</em></p> Autostraddle 08 <p> "Ali Liebegott's books evoke a life-affirming sensation that comes from embracing the pendular. Her ability to hit the right tone is scientific, almost violent in its precision—a single word or observation, well-placed, can have a reader crying or laughing aloud."—Evan Karp,<em> Bomb</em></p> Bomb 08 <p> "Most comparisons to Jack Kerouac induce eye-rolls, but you figure that the Beatific City Lights wouldn't print such a thing unless they meant it. <em>The Beautifully Worthless</em> is a subverted road story about a runaway waitress who leaves her lover and hits the road with her dog. She maps her travels in letters to the girl she left behind and poetry about love and heartache."</p> <p> —Alexis Coe</p> SF Weekly: Read Local 08 <p> "[Liebegott] writes with grace and empathy and with a whole 'lotta' heart."</p> Reviews by Amos Lassen 23 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100755360/extras/BeautifullyWorthlessExcerptCL.pdf 04 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100755360/images/87286100755360L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100755360/images/87286100755360S.jpg http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100755360 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 04 20130401 08 16 oz