
Fish Bones
Gillian Sze(Author)
DC Books,Canada (Publisher)
Published on 1. April 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
66 pages
978-1-897190-46-3 (ISBN)
Description
Gillian Sze takes a random walk through the art museum and finds the drama of life framed in a series precisely rendered and moving artefact poems. Working from Jeanette Winterson's idea of a "constant exchange of emotion" between the artist, the painting, and the writer, Sze's ekphrastic verse is unrelenting in its commitment to action, so that each poem sparked by a picture comes to follow its own impetus, the origin of which is always a deeply felt encounter, whether familial, erotic, or strange. Vacillating deftly between the suspended space-time of a museum exhibit and the charged urgency of the lives she imagines via the art she describes, the result is a collection at once stirring and arresting, tender and coolly true.
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Edition
In Fish Bones Gillian Sze Takes a Random Walk Through the Art Museum and Finds the Drama of Life Framed in a Series Precisely Rendered and Moving Artefact Poems. Working from Jeanette Winterson's Idea
Language
English
Place of publication
Montreal, QC
Canada
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 124 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
113 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-897190-46-3 (9781897190463)
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Person
Gillian Sze was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her poetry has appeared in such venues as CV2, Prairie Fire, pax Americana (U.S.), Crannóg (Ireland), Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (Hong Kong), and as a featured "Parliamentary Poem of The Week" selection. She is also the author of two chapbooks, This is the color I Love You Best (2007) and A Tender Invention (2008). She resides in Montreal.