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Price
$16.95  $15.76
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date
Pages
128
Dimensions
5.9 X 8.9 X 0.4 inches | 0.4 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780811229739

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About the Author
Thalia Field is Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of Creative Writing at Brown University. Her most recent novel is Experimental Animals (A Reality Fiction) from Solid Objects Press. Her three New Directions books are Point and Line (2000), Incarnate: Story Material (2004), and Bird Lovers, Backyard (2010).
Reviews
Between the inward tension of the point and the outward push of the line, Thalia Field maps a force field of relations, power games, shifting configurations, in a language both cool and intense, and with a surveyor's precision.--Rosmarie Waldrop
Field's frequently shifting scenes evoke Alice Notley, Anne Carson, and James Joyce.-- "Publishers Weekly"
Thalia Field's curiosity and probe are infectious, tantalizing, irrepressible. She is one of our most startling, original younger writers.--Anne Waldman
A hybrid of essayistic fragments and poetic lines exploring the toxic relationship between humans and the animal world by way of myth, metaphor and science: 'the forests have changed, the temperatures, / whole species gone north or south.'-- "New York Times"
Field draws from a variety of sources -- scientific, historical, philosophical -- to create a kind of text collage that nonetheless moves from point to point. Her sense of humor is witty and snarky....Field lands many a critical body blow to speciesism.--Carl Little "Hyperallergic"
Thalia Field does not settle on final answers but draws us into inquiries that unsettle our definitions. She is ignited by nature and the wild; she does not recoil from repelling us with factual talk; her book intends to move us to thoughtful action by destabilizing us with art.--Anakana Schofield "Bookpost"