Lip
In this stunning fourth collection, Kathy Fagan expands her ongoing engagement of voice and persona across the borders of both traditional and experimental poetic lines. A book of monologues, portraits, and arias, Lip directs our attention to the sometimes literal ropes and pulleys of the human stage, those operating just out of sight and earshot: the understructure and the undervoice. Fagan's speakers — historical, anonymous, and often subversively female — hold forth, hold back, enfold and unleash in forms as multiply textured as their experience. Always, hovering at the mouth of the vessel, in the margin of speech, is lip: anatomical and botanical, sexual and slang, servile and insolent.
- Author
- Kathy Fagan
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 64
- Publisher
- Eastern Washington University Press
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781597660495
- Genres
- poetry
- Release date
- 2009
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