Anatomy of Clay, The
Gillian Sze, Josh Levine, Michael Barclay, Ian A. D. Jack, and Jason Schneider
ECW Press
Livre numérique
Taking off from the Promethean myth of human creation, Gillian Sze's second
poetry collection explores the "anatomy of clay" and the individual as a
sentient mystery. At times reflective, instructional, playful, or strange, the
first section, Quotidianus, offers observational poems, which recount intimate
and ordinary moments often missed, overlooked, or forgotten. Sze tugs at the
fabric of habit and amidst the urban mundane finds her subjects in a woman
waiting for the bus, a neighbour who talks to his plants, a girl smoking after
a storm. The following section, Extimacy, takes a lyrical and confessional
turn, veering inwards, dealing reflexively with the materiality of inner life:
the self as ingredients, the self as experiment, the self as animal and
artist. The Anatomy of Clay finds exceptions in the most prosaic conditions
and the ineffable distinctions between people, selves, objects, and histories.
poetry collection explores the "anatomy of clay" and the individual as a
sentient mystery. At times reflective, instructional, playful, or strange, the
first section, Quotidianus, offers observational poems, which recount intimate
and ordinary moments often missed, overlooked, or forgotten. Sze tugs at the
fabric of habit and amidst the urban mundane finds her subjects in a woman
waiting for the bus, a neighbour who talks to his plants, a girl smoking after
a storm. The following section, Extimacy, takes a lyrical and confessional
turn, veering inwards, dealing reflexively with the materiality of inner life:
the self as ingredients, the self as experiment, the self as animal and
artist. The Anatomy of Clay finds exceptions in the most prosaic conditions
and the ineffable distinctions between people, selves, objects, and histories.
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