Fat art, thin art / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (170 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 a

Contents:

"Who fed this muse?"

Joy. He's himself today! He knows me!

"Grave, never offering back the face of my dear"

"Guys who were 35 last year are 70 this year"

The Navajo Rug

A Vigil

The Use of Being Fat

"For years it drove me crazy"

Performative (Toronto)

Performative (San Francisco)

"What I would be when I grew up"

"Not like the clownish, friendly way you talk"

Sh

"I can tune my mind today"

"All I know is I woke up thinking"

Snapsh

"Crushed. Dilapidated."

The 58 1/2 Minute Hour

How Not to Be There

"Mobility, speech, sight"

"A scar, just a scar"

"When I got so sick it never occurred to me"

"Little kid at the airport practicing"

"In dreams they're interchangeable"

Our

"It seems there are two kinds of marriage"

"One of us falls asleep on the other's shoulder"

Not

Nicht mehr Leben

"I'm safe so long as the single feather of one wing"

"In dreams on which decades of marriage haven't"

Trace at 46

An Essay on the Picture Plane

Everything Always Distracts

Sexual Hum

Penn Central: New Haven Line

Poet

Sestina Lente

The Warm Decembers

Note on "The Warm Decembers."

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786612919824

9781282919822

1282919822

9780822382652

0822382652

OCLC:

850216078