The Certain Body

In the long limbo of post-viral syndrome, Julia Guez aptly frames the recursive paralysis of pandemic rhetoric, whose seeming transitions always arrive at the same uncertainty: "and then what / and then / what, what / then." The Certain Body captures life with illness-how the body moves through disease and rests in the liminal space of otherness. Following the speaker through a harrowing and disorienting SARS-Cov-2 infection, readers witness the poet's gradual refortification as Guez traverses all facets of sickness: its mercies, its pleasures, its gratitudes, its reliefs, its gorgeousnesses. Probing, sharp poems centering an awareness of human ephemerality answer the words of Viktor Shklovsky: "And art exists that one may recover the sensation of life; it exists to make one feel things, to make the stone stony." In "If Indeed I Am Ill," Guez writes, "These sonatas, these scores, tell me / what of them will last when everything falls away-" Through these lyric expressions, Guez shows us not just how art can heal but how healing is art, a modality of acceptance, the meaning in the process, a mosaic of imperfections that creates and embraces what is.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Julia Guez
• Editore: Four Way Books
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 01.09.2022
• Categoria: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica
• EAN: 9781954245303
• ISBN: 978-1-954245-30-3
• Numero di pagine: 64
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 14.8 x 22.4 x 0.6 cm
• Peso (della confezione): 159 g
• Serie: Stahlecker Selections
• Categorie: Poetry; POETRY / American / General; POETRY / Women Authors; POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss; POETRY / LGBTQ+