{"product_id":"fat-art-thin-art-hardback-9780822315018","title":"Fat Art, Thin Art (Hardback) 9780822315018","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFat Art, Thin Art\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEve Kosofsky Sedgwick (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780822315018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 August 1994\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e168 pages\u003cbr\u003e25 x 15 x 1.5 cm, 0.499 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFat Art, Thin Art\u003c\/i\u003e is a wrenchingly honest account-or enactment-of a writer’s relation to her gift. . . . filled with hesitations, self-cancellations, erasures, and gratifying fireworks. The pleasure of \u003ci\u003eFat Art, Thin Art\u003c\/i\u003e is witnessing Sedgwick discovering, again and again, the wonders-gorgeous shames and vindications-of what she can say.\"-Wayne Koestenbaum\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"How often the fiercest, the most autonomous American critics have been poets; from Emerson to Blackmur, from Burke to Hartman, many a discursion could be illustrated, even illuminated by reading the ulterior verse. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is such another, and it will enrich certain enigmas she has proposed, as well as appeal to certain appetites she has awakened, to immerse in this element-fragmentary at its widest reach (a deconstructed Victorian 3-decker), healing at its most abrupt (‘the yard, the mud, the morning \/ in their new, punished clothes’), and ever searching for the \u003ci\u003emakings\u003c\/i\u003e of the dilemma. Such is the true poetics of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and of course it is the poetry as well.\"-Richard Howard\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Reading \u003ci\u003eFat Art, Thin Art\u003c\/i\u003e is a thrilling experience. The publication of these poems will help to complete our picture of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick who, already recognized as one of the most extraordinary critics of her generation, now proves herself one of its truly innovative poets.\"-Maud Ellmann\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"This is poetry of a great soul which presents to mind shapely and unmistakable presences brought very close to the eye. \u003ci\u003eFat Art, Thin Art\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of poetic distinction and indispensable human use.\"-Allen Grossman\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEve 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: \u003ci\u003eTendencies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEpistemology of the Closet\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBetween Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire.\u003c\/i\u003e The publication of \u003ci\u003eFat Art, Thin Art\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003eEmbodying 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. \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003eWho fed this muse?\"\u003cbr\u003e 3\u003cbr\u003e Joy. He's himself today! He knows me! 9\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eGrave, never offering back the face of my dear\"\u003cbr\u003e 10\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eGuys who were 35 last year are 70 this year\"\u003cbr\u003e 11\u003cbr\u003e The Navajo Rug 12\u003cbr\u003e A Vigil 13\u003cbr\u003e The Use of Being Fat 15\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eFor years it drove me crazy\"\u003cbr\u003e 16\u003cbr\u003e Performative (Toronto) 17\u003cbr\u003e Performative (San Francisco) 18\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eWhat I would be when I grew up\"\u003cbr\u003e 19\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eNot like the clownish, friendly way you talk\"\u003cbr\u003e 20\u003cbr\u003e Sh 21\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eI can tune my mind today\"\u003cbr\u003e 22\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eAll I know is I woke up thinking\"\u003cbr\u003e 23\u003cbr\u003e Snapsh 24\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eCrushed. Dilapidated.\"\u003cbr\u003e 25\u003cbr\u003e The 58 1\/2 Minute Hour 26\u003cbr\u003e How Not to Be There 27\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eMobility, speech, sight\"\u003cbr\u003e 28\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eA scar, just a scar\"\u003cbr\u003e 29\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eWhen I got so sick it never occurred to me\"\u003cbr\u003e 30\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eLittle kid at the airport practicing\"\u003cbr\u003e 31\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eIn dreams they're interchangeable\"\u003cbr\u003e 32\u003cbr\u003e Our 33\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eIt seems there are two kinds of marriage\"\u003cbr\u003e 34\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eOne of us falls asleep on the other's shoulder\"\u003cbr\u003e 35\u003cbr\u003e Not 36\u003cbr\u003e Nicht Mehr Leben 37\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eI'm safe so long as the single feather of our wing\"\u003cbr\u003e 38\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eIn dreams on which decades of marriage haven't\"\u003cbr\u003e 39\u003cbr\u003e II \u003cbr\u003e Trace at 46 43\u003cbr\u003e An Essay on the Picture Plane 72\u003cbr\u003e Everything Always Distracts 74\u003cbr\u003e Sexual Hum 76\u003cbr\u003e Penn Central: New Haven Line 80\u003cbr\u003e Poet 82\u003cbr\u003e Sestina Lente 83\u003cbr\u003e III \u003cbr\u003e The Warm Decembers 89\u003cbr\u003e Note on \"\u003cbr\u003eThe Warm Decembers\"\u003cbr\u003e 153\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52574568415512,"sku":"9780822315018","price":63.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/fat-art-thin-art-hardback-9780822315018","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}