I Married the Icepick Killer

A vibrant and insightful essay collection about life as a poet in Southern California  Poetry and Hollywood may not seem compatible in anyone’s book. But acclaimed poet, novelist, and critic Carol Muske-Dukes finds common ground for both in meditations on movie sets and metaphors, on the big screen and the luminous focus of a haiku. I Married the Icepick Killer  offers the reader ways to reimagine the Imagination itself. Former California Poet Laureate Muske-Dukes explores Southern Cal