{"product_id":"go-go-go-girl-9798323610532","title":"Go Go Go Girl","description":"\u003cb\u003eNicca Ray\u003c\/b\u003e, author of the memoir, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRay on Ray: A Daughter's Take on the Legend of Nicholas Ray\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, follows up her first poetry collection, \u003ci\u003e \u003cb\u003eBack Seat Baby\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, with more soul-baring verse in \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGo Go Go Girl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e. She collaborates once more with \u003cb\u003eJesse McCloskey\u003c\/b\u003e who supplies a wealth of evocative drawings to complement each piece. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGo Go Go Girl \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ehas the exhilaration, despair and feral beauty of a lost \u003ci\u003eX\u003c\/i\u003e album. Poems that open the heart's trap door. Images that burn themselves into your retinae.\" - \u003cb\u003ePeter Trachtenberg\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003e7 Tattoos, The Book of Calamities\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGo Go Go Girl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is an epic work by this symbiotic pairing. Ripping, tearing, gripping, daring. The rawest nerves, the dangerous curves. Life lived hard at all speeds - fast, slow, and everything in between. It's all in here, pulsing with Nicca's personal truth and illuminated by Jesse's ocular electricity.\" - \u003cb\u003eNels Cline\u003c\/b\u003e, musician, Wilco \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The tightly chiseled poems of \u003cb\u003eNicca Ray \u003c\/b\u003eburn with intensity in \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGo Go Go Girl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e. Reading these words, you feel the ferocity of a traumatic Los Angeles childhood, the back-alley punk adolescent strung-out affairs, the struggle to escape the lure of drink, drugs, sex, love and the past, and the joy of finding belief in the self...The poems are complemented by...intimate drawings...by Ray's partner, \u003cb\u003eJesse McCloskey\u003c\/b\u003e, adding depth and expanse to the intricacies of the work...\" - \u003cb\u003eKat Georges\u003c\/b\u003e, poet, \u003ci\u003eAwe and Other Words Like Wow\u003c\/i\u003e; co-director, Three Rooms Press \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eNicca Ray\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eJesse McCloskey\u003c\/b\u003e enhance one another's work in this exquisite collaboration of poetry and artwork, reflecting lives intertwined in love and creation...\" - \u003cb\u003ePuma Perl\u003c\/b\u003e, poet\/writer\u003ci\u003e, Birthdays Before and After\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eNicca Ray's\u003c\/b\u003e new collection \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGo Go Go Girl\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis a powerful testament to the resilience of the human spirit, a haunting reminder of the thin line between salvation and surrender, love and despair. Complemented by \u003cb\u003eJesse McCloskey's\u003c\/b\u003e superb monochromatic palette of drawings, every word becomes a melody, every line a revelation...\" - \u003cb\u003eRichard Modiano\u003c\/b\u003e, Director Emeritus of Beyond Baroque Literary\/Arts Center \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGo Go Go Girl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is a portrait of \u003cb\u003eNicca Ray\u003c\/b\u003e returning the gaze of a woman playing roulette with the addict riddled ghosts of her past. Undressing in front of a mirror gilded in punk, Ray questions what is self - as body, memory, spirit, shelter, nature, sex and street - while skillfully turning nightmares into dreams...this incredible collaboration features daunting images by visual artist J\u003cb\u003eesse McCloskey\u003c\/b\u003e.\" - \u003cb\u003eKathleen Florence\u003c\/b\u003e, writer + director \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Sprinkle some fairy dust where there's line and text...at the intersection of razors edge and dewy sundown field we find the curiosity that reflects on pain and turns ashes to gold...We are witness to the shadows and the juice of it all which Nicca and Jesse so naturally convey...\" - \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Kresch\u003c\/b\u003e, artist \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"When I'm reading \u003cb\u003eNicca Ray's\u003c\/b\u003e poems, they are frequently accompanied in my mind by the movie vignettes that her words inspire....a beboppery lineage stretching back to The Beats. Nicca's poems are real life, baby, there's romance in there for sure, but it's not that of the perfection fantasy. This is the stuff that regular folks know only too well...No ivory towers or silver spoons...The drawings by the artist \u003cb\u003eJesse McCloskey\u003c\/b\u003e that illustrate this collection could not be more appropriate...\" - \u003cb\u003eRay Gange\u003c\/b\u003e, Rogue Gallery, England \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This is everything a collaboration should be. Whether scalpel sharp or as beautiful as wildflowers...Together they form a complete whole...\" - \u003cb\u003eMatthew Hupert\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \"ism is a retrovirus \u0026amp; secular pantheism\", founder NeuroNautic institute\/NeuroNautic press.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50920152498450,"sku":"9798323610532","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b36452ab-6246-4953-ae77-6e0cda8f0a5a.jpg?v=1738901912","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/go-go-go-girl-9798323610532","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}