Description
| Product ID: | 9781939568496 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Fastening |
| Authors: | Author: Julie Doxsee |
| Page Count: | 112 |
| Subjects: | Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets |
| Description: | The fifth book of poetry by a true poet's poet with a unique mastery of language and experimentation. In Julie Doxsee’s The Fastening, the permanent imprints of love, childhood, death, and pleasure are elongated, handled delicately, celebrated, puzzled over, all while underpinned by hauntingly vicious origins. Landscapes in the book shift and jolt, melt into snowman slush or gash the flesh with matter-of-fact craters, thorns, rope burns, and rocks. The poet wants to scrub the sharp peaks with steel wool but recognizes how millions of these violence-borne imprints have ganged up to keep her alive. In The Fastening, bodies are soft sketches that could detonate at the pop of a flashbulb, diffuse into a cloud of vapor, or escape into a small recess with just enough space to breathe. The fifth book of poetry by a true poet''s poet with a unique mastery of language and experimentation. In Julie Doxsee’s The Fastening, the permanent imprints of love, childhood, death, and pleasure are elongated, handled delicately, celebrated, puzzled over, all while underpinned by hauntingly vicious origins. Landscapes in the book shift and jolt, melt into snowman slush or gash the flesh with matter-of-fact craters, thorns, rope burns, and rocks. The poet wants to scrub the sharp peaks with steel wool but recognizes how millions of these violence-borne imprints have ganged up to keep her alive. In The Fastening, bodies are soft sketches that could detonate at the pop of a flashbulb, diffuse into a cloud of vapor, or escape into a small recess with just enough space to breathe. |
| Imprint Name: | Black Ocean |
| Publisher Name: | Black Ocean |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-06-30 |
