Publisher's Synopsis
Cathleen Allyn Conway's 'American Ingénue' is a pamphlet of found poems cut from Bret Easton Ellis novels and Francine Pascal's Sweet Valley High series. Conway transforms her unlikely source material into giddy, irreverent and violent episodes which centre around a 'damaged party girl' wandering 'the wreckage of New York'. A dazzling and delightful work which takes the found poem to new, vertiginous heights.