T. Fleischmann

Syzygy, Beauty (eBook, ePUB)

An Essay

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"In Syzygy, Beauty, T Fleischmann re-imagines the essay, creating a spare little book that reads like a collection of prose poems." (David Ulin, Los Angeles Times) In Syzygy, Beauty, T Fleischmann builds an essay of prose blocks, weaving together observations on art, the narrator's construction of a house, and a direct address to a lover. Playing with scale and repetition, we are kept off-center, and therefore always looking, as the speaker leads us through an intimate relationship that is complicated and deepened by multiple partners, gender transitions, and itinerancy. "A complex, tightly wound (and wounded) cri de coeur that is simultaneously accessible and intensely, cryptically personal." -Minneapolis Star-Tribune "T Fleischmann's Syzygy, Beauty shimmers with confidence as it tours the surreal chaos of gender, art, and desire . . . I hail its weirdness, its 'armpit frankess,' its indelible portrait of occulted relation, and above all, its impeccable music." -Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts "This distinctive debut traces 'the past made alight by impact' through a diverse set of sources: film and carpentry analogies; interior monologues; references to artists Méret Oppenheim, Man Ray, Grayson Perry, and Louise Bourgeois; gnostic texts; and personal, yet ambiguous, disclosures." -ForeWord Reviews "At its most basic, this unusual and engaging book describes the ins-and-outs of an unorthodox love affair, but it also functions as a sustained exploration of the ambiguities of love, gender, intimacy, and aesthetic possibilities." -Publishers Weekly

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sarabande Books
• Seitenzahl: 122
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781936747351
• Artikelnr.: 38371489

Autorenporträt

T FLEISCHMANN lived by the Great Lakes until attending the University of Iowa and completing an MFA in Nonfiction Writing. Essays have appeared in Fourth Genre, Pleiades, Indiana Review, Gulf Coast, and The Pinch, as well as in the feminist magazine make/shift, and have been Notable Essays in The Best American Essays, 2009 and 2010. A Nonfiction Editor at DIAGRAM, T has settled in rural Tennessee after traveling for several years across the United States.