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FYI I DO NOT LOOK LIKE THIS ANYMORE! http://dinadelbucchia.com/boooooooook daily 0.75 2019-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514e6648e4b0a337a813ed83/1502838238252-FYSF3LBIZNLQO83CY20M/image-asset.jpeg Del Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514e6648e4b0a337a813ed83/1547496177766-E16YZ18AYCHN91QHPBK7/IMG_2282.jpeg Del Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514e6648e4b0a337a813ed83/1502838513136-GWFSRHC3TZFF8SQMWIME/image-asset.jpeg Del Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514e6648e4b0a337a813ed83/1502838658826-F2AU7BFCFKOVS2C6JBKS/coping-with-emotions-and-otters.jpeg Del Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514e6648e4b0a337a813ed83/1453937377157-69O4AM4BB1OADHZDVYF4/11800426_10153458754071955_7899634432524539359_n.jpg Del Books http://dinadelbucchia.com/av-club daily 0.75 2024-03-20 http://dinadelbucchia.com/contact daily 0.75 2024-03-20 http://dinadelbucchia.com/events daily 0.75 2024-03-21 http://dinadelbucchia.com/news daily 0.75 2016-06-13 http://dinadelbucchia.com/manuscript-consults-event-help-publicity-more daily 0.75 2025-05-05 http://dinadelbucchia.com/youre-gonna-love-this daily 0.75 2024-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514e6648e4b0a337a813ed83/1da2850c-63bb-4ae6-bf6e-686c3b573223/YGLT+Cover.jpg You're Gonna Love This - You’re Gonna Love This You’re Gonna Love This tracks the narrator’s entwined relationships with her spouse, her television, and herself. Displaying Del Bucchia’s trademark nuanced media literacy, this distinctly working-class long poem unravels how media culture’s around-the-clock presence impacts our connection to the world. Recapping episodes in her experience of caregiving, she also addresses her own mental-health journey with dark humour, wry cultural references, and a flair for making the deeply personal especially relatable. You’re gonna love this! ORDER HERE http://dinadelbucchia.com/its-a-big-deal daily 0.75 2024-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514e6648e4b0a337a813ed83/393f4009-1125-4400-bfe6-d95ff161b67e/IABD+Cover_2282.jpeg It's a Big Deal! - It’s a Big Deal! So many things seem like a BIG DEAL: buying clothes, food trends for healthfulness and coolness, what’s trending online, your personal problems, what someone else has said, the political landscape, an Instagram post, avocado toast. This list could go on and on. What’s a big deal to someone might be nothing to another. It’s a Big Deal! questions the way modern society values, interprets, and roasts or embraces these ideas. How do these big deals affect us, and the way we interact with others? Is the way we measure “bigness” different than it used to be? Does it mutate as time goes on? From popular trends in health and wellness to the big deals of life like death and work, love and politics, and into the extinct megafauna that used to walk this earth, this book looks at the ways we interpret those things. This collection is wry, sensitive, bitchy, and honest. With a unique voice that holds humour and heart, the poems reflect the ever-changing big deals we encounter in the world. http://dinadelbucchia.com/dont-tell-me-what-to-do daily 0.75 2024-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514e6648e4b0a337a813ed83/49708783-09d3-42ea-a7c0-e1a712bb5552/book-cover-don-t-tell-me-what-to-do-by-dina-del-bucchia.jpg Don't Tell Me What to Do - Don’t Tell Me What to Do In poet Dina Del Bucchia's debut story collection, an older woman becomes obsessed with the state of her lawn, a pet architect jeopardizes her relationship with her wife over a wild bird, a cement mixer helps a woman fulfill her dreams, a former model becomes a cult leader through social media, a teenaged girl is preoccupied with making shopping-haul videos, and a young woman goes on a crime spree thanks to a basement containing $35,000 in coins. These funny and strange stories are populated by weirdos and misfits trying out new ways of being in the world; sometimes they succeed and sometimes they fail, and sometimes they end up in a slapstick sex scene that culminates with broken furniture. Disarming and bittersweet, Don't Tell Me What to Do isn't scared to tell the truth about those of us who are emotional, who care too much about things that might seem ridiculous and who are beautifully, perfectly flawed. (From Arsenal Pulp Press) http://dinadelbucchia.com/rom-com daily 0.75 2024-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514e6648e4b0a337a813ed83/0b1bb38d-34d0-4686-8927-76fb20915f24/9780889229600.jpg Rom Com - Rom Com Written with Daniel Zomparelli At precisely the cultural moment you were hoping for, a dream team of smart, sexy, brunette, West Coast poets of Italian descent has passionately co-authored an intelligent collection of poetry that both celebrates and capsizes the romantic comedy. From the origin of the genre (It Happened One Night) to its contemporary expressions (Love Actually), the poems in Rom Com trace the attempt to deconstruct as well as engage in dialogue with romantic comedy films and the pop culture, celebrities, and tropes that have come to be associated with them. These irreverent, playful, weird, and comedic poems come in a variety of forms, fully engaging in pop culture, without a judgmental tone. They see your frumpy expectations and raise you issues of sexuality, consent, sexism, homophobia, race, and class. They explore the highs and lows of romantic relationships and the expectations and realities of love, tackling real emotional worlds through the lens of film. Two cool people wrote it. Dina Del Bucchia, the fashionable and voluptuous, is a woman on the go, brazenly hosting literary events and tweeting about otters and award shows. Daniel Zomparelli, the handsome and dashing, is a young, gay man-about-Vancouver who somehow also quietly edits (in chief) a semi-annual poetry journal. (Ship them all you want, fools.) How to tell if you are compatible with this book: Are you equally versed in literature and pop culture? Are you a film-savvy fan of contemporary poetry? Are you an academic with interest in literature and cultural studies? Are you in general a cool, sad person? This book might just be the sassy best friend you’ve wanted. http://dinadelbucchia.com/blind-items daily 0.75 2024-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514e6648e4b0a337a813ed83/b046019e-d834-4cbf-a9d9-e855d86e191e/Blind+Items+Cover.jpeg Blind Items - Blind Items Dina Del Bucchia takes celebrities very personally--maybe too personally. What would you do if you met Lindsay Lohan in a Walmart parking lot? James Franco in a thrift shop? The Olsen twins behind a dumpster? Blind Items puts you in contact with celebrities in the ways you've always dreamed. These hypermodern confessional poems are funny, strange, and very, very sexy. In this, her second collection, Del Bucchia tears down the fourth wall of tabloid journalism with her teeth. http://dinadelbucchia.com/coping-with-emotions-and-otters daily 0.75 2024-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/514e6648e4b0a337a813ed83/c41f6853-7f18-4bf6-a6b0-364b0bf919f3/9780889227644.jpg Coping with Emotions and Otters - Coping with Emotions and Otters Taking as her guide the structure of the contemporary pop psychology how-to book, with its neatly numbered and ordered rules regarding how to change and improve our lives, and also flirting with a concept found in serial poems such as Jack Spicer’s “Psychoanalysis: An Elegy,” Dina Del Bucchia fashions incredibly witty and punchy guides for exploring our most awkward emotions. The question becomes how to get a grip on these emotions and “self- actualize” in an age when the height of illusory autonomy is achieved by maximum contagion, by “going viral,” and through intensely obsessive identification with celebrities – spectacular representations of living human beings who, as Guy Debord suggests, “exist to act out various styles of living and viewing society unfettered, free to express themselves globally” through the act of dramatizing by-products of our labour, emphasizing power and vacations, decision and consumption. With the advent of reality show worship, our sense of emotional control and superiority is inextricably linked with enjoying an emotional arena full of “real people” that combines explosive “blowouts” with grave mockeries of our electoral process. This phenomenon was evident in the case of the now-deceased Nyac, one of eight sea otters brought to the Vancouver Aquarium following the massive Exxon Valdez oil spill that devastated Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989. Nyac skyrocketed to celebrity status when millions watched a YouTube video posted in 2007 that caught her holding hands with Milo (another otter). In poems about this exciting celebrity hookup, by turns touching and ironic, Del Bucchia takes on our “society of the spectacle,” prompting us to meditate upon the media viewing frustum through which we channel so many of our emotions and thereby construct our sense of reality, when otters are looking out for one another in a way we often don’t. http://dinadelbucchia.com/store daily 0.75 2025-05-30