F2f - Couverture souple

Holmes, Janet

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0268030766 ISBN 13 : 9780268030766

Editeur : University of Notre Dame Press, 2006

Synopsis

f2f: Shorthand for "face-to-face," as in meeting someone in real life, flesh-to-flesh, as opposed to in the electronic world of cyberspace. Used in chat rooms and while instant messaging on the Internet.

At the core of this challenging new collection from Janet Holmes is the conceit of the sense of sight and the complex role it plays in women's self-identities and relationships.

Emily Dickinson is introduced as the iconic female writer who, unread in her time, is frequently misinterpreted and unheard. Holmes relates Dickinson's self-isolation to the writer's isolation from the reader and the intimacy of the act of reading. Echo, Eurydice, and Eros--other "E" figures, these mythological, their stories relying on seeing and being seen--are related by Holmes to twentieth-century counterparts manifesting as an anorexic, a flamboyant dresser, and a love god, respectively.

Holmes intersperses her meditation with the language of online text-messaging, employing it as a vehicle for probing the dual limitations and liberties afforded on-line correspondents. Through her correspondents' postings, we chart their relationship evolving without benefit of ever meeting or exchanging photographs, the participants deeply affected by the absence of the sense of sight. By turns provocative and timid, lyrical and terse, the voices in f2f exhibit myriad human reactions to how seeing each other influences how we behave.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Janet Holmes is the author of three volumes of poetry. Holmes has won numerous awards for her poems, which have appeared in a wide range of publications, including two editions of The Best American Poetry and journals such as American Poetry Review, The Georgia Review, and Notre Dame Review. She teaches in the MFA program at Boise State University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0268030766
• ISBN 13: 9780268030766
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible