You Animal Machine (the Golden Greek)

A memoir of Melena, five-times married, mother, burlesque dancer, and "the hardest-assed woman to ever eat wood and bite nails."

Author: Eleni Sikelianos
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 06/10/2014
Pages: 126
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.21h x 5.66w x 0.49d
ISBN13: 9781566893602
ISBN10: 1566893607
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Essays
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Literary Collections | American | General

About the Author
Eleni Sikelianos is the author of six books of poetry, most recently The Loving Detail of the Living and the Dead and The California Poem, which was a Barnes & Noble Best of the Year, as well as a hybrid memoir, The Book of Jon. Sikelianos teaches in and directs the Creative Writing Program at the University of Denver. A California native, longtime New Yorker, and world traveler, she now lives in Boulder with her husband, the novelist Laird Hunt, and their daughter, Eva Grace.