Fish Bones

By Gillian Sze

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 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1897190468
• ISBN13: 9781897190463
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: DC Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 4.9" x 7.7"