Syzygy, Beauty: An Essay Contributor(s): Fleischmann, T. (Author) |
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ISBN: 193674726X ISBN-13: 9781936747269 Publisher: Sarabande Books
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: March 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Collections | Lgbt - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Love & Erotica |
Dewey: 814.6 |
LCCN: 2011030324 |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.1" W x 7.7" L (0.30 lbs) 144 pages |
Features: Price on Product |
Review Citations: Foreword 02/29/2012 Publishers Weekly 04/23/2012 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: T Fleischmann's Syzygy, Beauty shimmers with confidence as it tours the surreal chaos of gender, art, and desire. Its declarative sentences--seductive, abject, caustic, moving, informative, and utterly inventive--herald a new world, one in which we are blessedly 'here with outfits like strings of light and no future.' I hail its weirdness, its 'armpit frankess, ' its indelible portrait of occulted relation, and above all, its impeccable music.--Maggie Nelson Construction becomes quiet, the saw buzz and the bang little white wisps that stop at my edges. We'll get used to most anything, at least enough to keep going. The will of the wisp. I want to poke a hole in my words so that people notice you are not here. Comfortable divots you could fill some day, if you wanted to. My mother sighs, my friends sigh. You're so sad, they say. I'm not, I'm really not. I'm just trying to breathe fully. The shadow of the mountain turns with the day, encroaching. When it settles on me I put the hammer down and walk to where it is still warm. In Syzygy, Beauty, T Fleischmann builds an essay of prose blocks, weaving together observations on art, the narrator's construction of a house, and a direct address to a lover. Playing with scale and repetition, we are kept off-center, and therefore always looking, as the speaker leads us through an intimate relationship that is complicated and deepened by multiple partners, gender transitions, and itinerancy. |
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