Gertrude Stein's work is co-opted and re-seen in an attempt to unpack the relationship between love and war; Walt Whitman makes a command performance in dismembered bits of forced formal verse; and "T
Final Girl ? the last girl left alive in the syntax of the "slasher"? traces the history of the femme fatale in a sequence of poems and stories that display the verve and wit readers have come to expe
