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...
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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
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Contents; I; "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"; II; Trace at 46; An Essay on the Picture Plane; Everything Always Distracts; Sexual Hum; Penn Central: New Haven Line; Poet; Sestina Lente; III; The Warm Decembers; Note on "The Warm Decembers"
