School of Fish
A contemporary poetry collection made of images that rise out of the city’s flow, carrying loss and desire together. Lightness and urgency coexist throughout.
Work Information
It gathers poems and prose in search of light, passion, and decency.
A Lambda Literary Award-winning volume of poems and prose in which urban sensation, memory, and bodily awareness intersect sharply.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Black Sparrow Press
- Published
- 1997-03-01
- Pages
- 193 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 16.33 x 2.39 x 23.77 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781574230321
- ISBN-10
- 1574230328
- Price
- 37845 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/American
Here are images seized from urban life's experimental flow. Illuminating these densely and intensely alive new poems is an eloquent and revealing prose essay, "The Lesbian Poet", wherein Myles addresses the sources of her art, paying homage to her favorite living poets and early influences, and spelling out her own vitalist / proprioceptive aesthetic: "I think we all write out poems with our metabolism, our sexuality, for me a poem has always been an imagined body of a sort, getting that down in time, it moves this way and that, it is full of its own sense of possibility". With agility, grace and speed, Eileen Myles explores poetic possibilities, stretching linguistic boundaries while hungrily searching for the taste of life's quick core. "I have this compulsion to live no matter what..."