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Tracey Knapp lives in San Francisco, where she works as a graphic designer. Her poems have appeared in No Tell Motel, the Carolina Quarterly "Emerging Voices" issue, and elsewhere.
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Published Fall/Winter 2007
 
Blonde
by Tracey Knapp | ns 69
lipstick on the cucumbers she couldn't keep her calves together
male gets delivered to the right box she wasn't used to being in the front seat
bite marks on the steering wheel why was she upset
when her tampon is behind her ear she can't find her pencil fired from her job
why did the blonde fail call the welfare office jump off a bridge
drive into the ditch why did she scale the chain-link fence break her leg
marks on her back how did the blonde explain have another beer
other guys waiting their turn the more you bang it
how many does it take to screw a blonde at a flashing red light
crawling across the street when is it legal to shoot a blonde in the head
couldn't dial 911 when she wakes up on the floor
she gets dressed and goes home
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MR BOOKS
Critics at Work
ed. Jeffrey J. Williams.
Critics at Work offers a guided tour through the central, sometimes confusing and frequently controversial developments in contemporary literary and cultural criticism. The tour guides, however, are not distant observers but have been primary participants in those developments, and they report on theory, cultural studies, the literary canon, the recent focus on race, sexuality, and other identities, the state of the univerisity, and the role of the intellectual. Throughout, they consider the not always easy negotiation of politics and culture.
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