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In Fish Bones, Gillian Sze takes a random walk through the art museum and finds the drama of life framed in a series precisely rendered and moving artefact poems. Working from Jeanette Winterson's idea of a "constant exchange of emotion" between the artist, the painting, and the writer, Sze's ekphrastic verse is unrelenting in its commitment to action, so that each poem s
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Paperback, 65 pages
Published
May 7th 2009
by DC Books
(first published January 1st 2009)
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The Last Time I Saw You
I
When we were close enough
to confuse ourselves,
I mistook your nether region for hands.
II
Someone once wrote,
The earth moved.
Embracing you,
we rocked a boat
and the waves rushed upwards
past our heads,
reached the sky,
turned our hair into water.
And that clear heat -
even seaweed melted away
and found solace
at the edges of our bodies.
III
I wondered,
Can we make it as innocent as we'd like,
and suddenly we were naked,
pulled together by a trick law,
our bodies abiding by this new set of ...more
I
When we were close enough
to confuse ourselves,
I mistook your nether region for hands.
II
Someone once wrote,
The earth moved.
Embracing you,
we rocked a boat
and the waves rushed upwards
past our heads,
reached the sky,
turned our hair into water.
And that clear heat -
even seaweed melted away
and found solace
at the edges of our bodies.
III
I wondered,
Can we make it as innocent as we'd like,
and suddenly we were naked,
pulled together by a trick law,
our bodies abiding by this new set of ...more
I discovered Gillian Sze while I was googling my friend Sofia's work and I learned that she made a short film -A Drownful Brilliance of Wings-, based on one of Gillian's poems (Arriving). That was enough. A new path had begun.
I started reading Gillian Sze's poetry in a different order than the one I wanted to follow. So, I haven't started with Fish Bones, her debut collection. The Anatomy of Clay was the first one I got, so it had to be the first one. Redrafting Winter and Peeling Rambutan follo ...more
I started reading Gillian Sze's poetry in a different order than the one I wanted to follow. So, I haven't started with Fish Bones, her debut collection. The Anatomy of Clay was the first one I got, so it had to be the first one. Redrafting Winter and Peeling Rambutan follo ...more
You can read my review of this book on my website, Black Heart Magazine, here: http://blackheartmagazine.com/2009/06...
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A life through poetry is completely described in detail by Gillian Sze. This book can be said as a masterpiece of Poetry. I was really happy that i got this book in goodreads draw.
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GILLIAN SZE is the author of
Panicle
(ECW Press, 2017),
Peeling Rambutan
(Gaspereau Press, 2014) and
Redrafting Winter
(BuschekBooks, 2015), which were shortlisted for the QWF A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. She is also the author of
The Anatomy of Clay
(ECW Press, 2011) and
Fish Bones
(DC Books, 2009). Her work has appeared in a number of national and international journals, and
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