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Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54 EAN: 9780822315124 ISBN: 0822315122 Label: Duke University Press Manufacturer: Duke University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 168 Publication Date: 1994 Publisher: Duke University Press Studio: Duke University Press Editorial Review: Product Description: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is best known as a cultural and literary critic, as one of the primary forces behind the development of queer and gay/lesbian studies, and as author of several influential books: Tendencies, Epistemology of the Closet, and Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire. The publication of Fat Art, Thin Art, Sedgwick’s first volume of poetry, opens up another dimension of her continuing project of crossing and re-crossing the electrified boundaries between theory, lyric, and narrative. Embodying a decades-long adventure, the poems collected here offer the most accessible and definitive formulations to appear anywhere in Sedgwick’s writing on some characteristic subjects and some new ones: passionate attachments within and across genders; queer childhoods of many kinds; the performativity of a long, unconventional marriage; depressiveness, hilarity, and bliss; grave illness; despised and magnetic bodies and bodily parts. In two long fictional poems, a rich narrative momentum engages readers in the mysterious places—including Victorian novels—where characters, sexualities, and fates are unmade and made. Sedgwick’s poetry opens an unfamiliar, intimate, daring space that steadily refigures not only what a critic may be, but what a poem can do. Related Items:    see moreAverage Rating:
 Rating: - The Muse compared to (enacted) as bodily eating disorder...This wondrous little yet expansive book of poetry makes a lot of sense, as the body gets haunted by lacks and excesses that work themselves out like demonic and even Muse-like possessions of the Mind/Body thing itself in all its hunger, quest, and blind brilliance. This is an awesome first book of poetry really by a fully original and caring cultural theorist who is working in te wings of poetry and on on edge of queering it into something better than the Victorian poesy of, say, the New Yorker weekly poems or (for that matter) the banal and liberal pioucs verse of the utterly safe Nation magazine whose poetry is pure Dunciad material. Keep writing poetry EKS, it will get across the distances and the ages. When I showed your Duke UP poetry book to my poetry students here in Santa Cruz, one of them stole it, a good sign of need and (well) the hunger to write... |
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