By Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

ISBN-10: 0822315017

ISBN-13: 9780822315018

ISBN-10: 0822315122

ISBN-13: 9780822315124

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is better referred to as a cultural and literary critic, as one of many fundamental forces in the back of the improvement of queer and gay/lesbian reports, and as writer of a number of influential books: Tendencies, Epistemology of the Closet, and Between males: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire. The ebook of Fat artwork, skinny Art, Sedgwick’s first quantity of poetry, opens up one other measurement of her carrying on with venture of crossing and re-crossing the electrified obstacles among idea, lyric, and narrative.
Embodying a decades-long experience, the poems gathered right here supply the main available and definitive formulations to seem wherever in Sedgwick’s writing on a few attribute matters and a few new ones: passionate attachments inside and throughout genders; queer childhoods of many forms; the performativity of a protracted, unconventional marriage; depressiveness, hilarity, and bliss; grave disease; despised and magnetic our bodies and physically components. In lengthy fictional poems, a wealthy narrative momentum engages readers within the mysterious places—including Victorian novels—where characters, sexualities, and fates are unmade and made. Sedgwick’s poetry opens an strange, intimate, bold area that progressively refigures not just what a critic can be, yet what a poem can do.

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