{"type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "publish_date": "2015", "copyright_date": "2015", "publish_country": "nyu", "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "title": "Martha", "by_statement": "Leslie Allison ; illustrations by Molly Schaeffer", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL7963455A"}, {"key": "/authors/OL16518723A"}, {"key": "/authors/OL14101045A"}, {"key": "/authors/OL15365176A"}, {"key": "/authors/OL15047646A"}], "oclc_numbers": ["908688242"], "lc_classifications": ["PS3601.L4482 M37 2015"], "notes": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Poems.\n\nEdition of 500.\n\n\"Leslie Allison is a writer and performer. She composes choral music for performance collaborations with Francis Weiss Rabkin. Her dance and poetry criticism can be found in HTML Giant and The Brooklyn Rail, and her band Cross released its debut album, It's Curtains, earlier this year. Martha (Spring 2015, Ugly Duckling Press) is her first chapbook.\"--From the publisher's website (viewed 05/27/2015).\n\nAs issued, hand-sewn in illustrated printed mauve paper; in prefab case, 28 cm."}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"Martha is a lesbian fantasia that follows an unnamed narrator as she becomes enmeshed in life at Martha Stewart's manse. She (un)wittingly becomes a key component of a volatile sexual quadrangle, the other points of which are held by Martha; Madeleine Schubert, Martha's online pimp; and Kate, an angry ghost. In this louche paradise pleasure = power = drugs = housewares. Just make sure not to displease Mama, or she'll set the interns after you.\"--From the publisher's website (viewed 05/27/2015)."}, "subjects": ["Poetry", "Lesbianism"], "subject_people": ["Martha Stewart"], "publishers": ["Ugly Duckling Presse"], "publish_places": ["Brooklyn, New York"], "pagination": "29 unnumbered pages", "number_of_pages": 29, "source_records": ["marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/20220215_043.bib.mrc:294021654:3317"], "full_title": "Martha", "works": [{"key": "/works/OL45778227W"}], "key": "/books/OL62309912M", "latest_revision": 1, "revision": 1, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-07-15T15:57:14.571983"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-07-15T15:57:14.571983"}}