
Always a Body
Molly Fuller
(Author)Description
Rather than seeking answers, Molly Fuller's Always a Body calls into question the goal of answers, of the idea of linear and logical paths to answers; her poems seek, instead, to replace static answers with a desire to discover meaning through the dynamic of poetic searching. The poems work toward a language that can be used to come to terms with loss through the exploding and re-making of metaphor and what is expected from formal structures of languaging/poetics. Fuller pushes at the confines both of language and the themes of loss, so that the individual and the cosmos converge, creating tensions between what is unified and what is divergent, between other and self, and about the pains and the pleasures of the body, always the body.
Product Details
Publisher | Cornerstone Press |
Publish Date | April 24, 2023 |
Pages | 92 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9798986966380 |
Dimensions | 8.5 X 5.5 X 0.2 inches | 0.3 pounds |
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Reviews
"These poems are desperately sexy and beautifully deranged-dare to live with them a while and they will disturb you, comfort you, and change you." -Michelle Lewis, author of Animul/Flame
"Fuller's writing is fluent in the language of critique but never bogged down by it; every crisp syllable erupts with courage, love, confidence, and endurance." -Andrew Rihn, author of Revelation: An Apocalypse in Fifty-Eight Fights
"These musical poems-that move with a rhythm much like a pulse through a body-explore desire, pain, grief, and pleasure." -Nicole Robinson, author of Without a Field Guide
"Though there's a lot of pain and sorrow in these poems, there's also a movement toward a life with its many rewards . . . we realize that what we've read as an extended elegy might also be a quiet resurrection." -Rick Campbell, author of Sometimes the Light
"Molly Fuller writes, painting the body, painting the body as common denominator, as art and memory, as every reason." -Karen Schubert, author of The Compost Reader
"The thread holding these poems together is sturdy and deep-rooted in capturing the atmospheric ephemeral, in making us feel in familiar ways where the body and where our selves fuse and where we break." -Angie Mazakis, author of I Was Waiting to See What You Would Do First
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