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Becoming Lyla Dore
About this book
In this collection of persona poems, Teri Youmans Grimm weaves the public history of silent film with the personal history of a fictional silent film star. Becoming Lyla Dore recounts the provocative fall and rise of a young woman whose coming of age coincides with that of moving pictures. Lyla's need to be desired becomes her downfall as well as the catalyst that drives her to success as a silent film actress. Through stunning imagery a character's vulnerabilities and strengths, her heartbreaks and triumphs are explored through the lens of history reimagined. These poems are luminous as nitrate film and just as incendiary.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Magic Lantern
- When Kalem Studios Came to Town
- Phantasmagoria
- A Visit from the Snake Man
- Gathering of Ghosts
- At Kalem’s Headquarters, the Roseland Hotel
- The Filming of The Clarion
- When Theda Bara Came to Town
- I Recall That Summer
- I Wasn’t Pregnant, Dr. Moore Explained, Merely Late and This Procedure, While Painful, Would Resolve the Matter or Becoming Lyla Dore
- Refrain
- Photoplay Brains and Beauty Contest Photograph
- My Mother Tells Me I Was Conceived in Fire before I Was Condemned by It
- The Snake Man Consoling
- At the Station
- On the Train to Hollywoodland
- The Devil’s Passkey
- Fray
- On Being Given a Monkey Fur Coat from a Suitor
- The Soubrette Takes Center Stage
- Angel’s Tit
- When Henry Came to Town
- Flux
- Go On, Please. This Is Very Interesting
- This Is How It Ends
- The Last Veil
- When Henry Broke the Silence
- For Henry
- The Snake Man and the Pearl
- This Is How It Really Began
- This Is How It Really Ends
- Magic Lantern Reprise
- Star Dust
- The Snake Man and the Ghosts of Beautiful Women
- Notes
- Biographical Note