{"product_id":"dear-ted-paperback-1","title":"Dear Ted - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKim Vodicka\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf people were still banning and burning books, Vodicka's Dear Ted would be at the top of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe shortlist. Lars Von Trier will option this book. Pasolini would be proud.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Kim Göransson, photography and music production at feral sleep study\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVodicka's Dear Ted is not a genuflecting murder ballad. It's not a hyperbolic elegy to the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecult of personality that exists around a spectral boogeyman in pleated slacks. It IS a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eferocious take-no-prisoners deconstruction of the sycophantic idol worship that grows\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elike kudzu around killers that often obscures the survivors, victims, and vindicators.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVodicka is the definition of fearless. A poet who wields words like hammers and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emetaphors like lead pipes in the hands of angels. A not-to-be-missed collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-S.A. Cosby, New York Times bestselling author of Razorblade Tears and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlacktop Wasteland\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith Dear Ted, Vodicka grabs her hot pink poetry brush and paints important feminine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eenergy all over the often male-focused world of serial killers. It's a collection that offers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epoignant statements on violence against women in art and pop culture. Dear Ted takes the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epower away from men, both serial killers and serial daters alike. It's a killer read and an\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eempowering one, too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Gina Tron, true crime staff writer for Oxygen and author of Suspect, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmployment, and Star 67\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eResults of the autopsy are in: Kim Vodicka is the real killer, slaying with necromantic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewordplay illegal in most states, including the states of denial, arousal \u0026amp; psychosis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Jack Skelley, author of Fear of Kathy Acker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVodicka's feral wit and fetishistic wordplay don't just sugarcoat her bitter pills of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elacerating truth; they seduce you and wreck your defenses as she smears period blood\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eon the valorization of misogynistic monsters and vivisects the rancid romantic carnage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecommitted by the sociopathic shitshows that walk among us. But if it's wrong to be\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eturned on by this poetic orgy of nightmares and accusations, I don't know how to be\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eright.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Cody Goodfellow, Wonderland Book Award-winning author of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnamerica and All-Monster Action\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is impossible to choose between the three \"circles\" presented in Vodicka's electrifying\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecollection Dear Ted. Every section of this book is dangerous, chaotic, and compulsory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery poem is an essential marriage of brutal honesty and elaborate humor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Gabriel Ricard, author of Bondage Night and Disgruntled Columnist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVodicka relentlessly probes emotional violence in this long-form, experimental poem, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einflicting on the reader what destructive relationships do to the women involved. The\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebook requires a commitment to gross anatomy, mental gymnastics, breaking one's own\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehall of mirrors about the harm we cause, request and inflict. \"Do you know how much\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ework \/ goes into revisiting the scene \/ of a murder?\" Vodicka asks as a demand, as she\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efearlessly confesses her crimes committed and consumed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Nettie Zan Powers, author of Victimless Crime\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 202\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.43 x 6.5 x 6.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 14, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47353712148729,"sku":"9780578354019","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/J0LTlaI9fo9780578354019_95365383-f2d6-4d8a-bc9b-1ae9e80a196f.webp?v=1769828397","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/dear-ted-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}