Synopsis "Dear Ted (in English)"
If people were still banning and burning books, Vodicka's Dear Ted would be at the top ofthe shortlist. Lars Von Trier will option this book. Pasolini would be proud.-Kim Göransson, photography and music production at feral sleep studyVodicka's Dear Ted is not a genuflecting murder ballad. It's not a hyperbolic elegy to thecult of personality that exists around a spectral boogeyman in pleated slacks. It IS aferocious take-no-prisoners deconstruction of the sycophantic idol worship that growslike kudzu around killers that often obscures the survivors, victims, and vindicators.Vodicka is the definition of fearless. A poet who wields words like hammers andmetaphors like lead pipes in the hands of angels. A not-to-be-missed collection.-S.A. Cosby, New York Times bestselling author of Razorblade Tears andBlacktop WastelandWith Dear Ted, Vodicka grabs her hot pink poetry brush and paints important feminineenergy all over the often male-focused world of serial killers. It's a collection that offerspoignant statements on violence against women in art and pop culture. Dear Ted takes thepower away from men, both serial killers and serial daters alike. It's a killer read and anempowering one, too.-Gina Tron, true crime staff writer for Oxygen and author of Suspect, Employment, and Star 67Results of the autopsy are in: Kim Vodicka is the real killer, slaying with necromanticwordplay illegal in most states, including the states of denial, arousal & psychosis.-Jack Skelley, author of Fear of Kathy AckerVodicka's feral wit and fetishistic wordplay don't just sugarcoat her bitter pills oflacerating truth; they seduce you and wreck your defenses as she smears period bloodon the valorization of misogynistic monsters and vivisects the rancid romantic carnagecommitted by the sociopathic shitshows that walk among us. But if it's wrong to beturned on by this poetic orgy of nightmares and accusations, I don't know how to beright.-Cody Goodfellow, Wonderland Book Award-winning author ofUnamerica and All-Monster ActionIt is impossible to choose between the three "circles" presented in Vodicka's electrifyingcollection Dear Ted. Every section of this book is dangerous, chaotic, and compulsory.Every poem is an essential marriage of brutal honesty and elaborate humor.-Gabriel Ricard, author of Bondage Night and Disgruntled ColumnistVodicka relentlessly probes emotional violence in this long-form, experimental poem, inflicting on the reader what destructive relationships do to the women involved. Thebook requires a commitment to gross anatomy, mental gymnastics, breaking one's ownhall of mirrors about the harm we cause, request and inflict. "Do you know how muchwork / goes into revisiting the scene / of a murder?" Vodicka asks as a demand, as shefearlessly confesses her crimes committed and consumed.-Nettie Zan Powers, author of Victimless Crime
