Prose Poetry. Phyllis Koestenbaum is a senior scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University, and also teaches poetry workshops--this is her eighth volume of poetry. "A thousand questions, a thousand digressions: with the best kind of humor--intrinsic humor--Kostenbaum's paragraphs illuminate witness, reminiscence, confession, gossip, composition, thought itself"--Carol Snow. "Koestenbaum's DORIS DAY AND KITSCHY MELODIES is exactly in tune, where 'The rhythms of prose are the rhythms of life"--Laura Mullen.