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Author Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky

Title Fat art, thin art / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (160 pages)
Series Duke backfile
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."
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
Analysis English poetry
United States
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Subject English poetry.
POETRY -- American -- General.
English poetry.
SUBJECT United States. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095330
Subject United States.
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ISBN 9780822382652
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