What I'm Afraid to Show You - Couverture souple

Tugendhat, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1944355073 ISBN 13 : 9781944355074

Editeur : Five Oaks Press, 2016

Synopsis

Michael Tugendhat’s poetic oeuvre is about the limits of the human body that place us into contact with the world, with other sufferers. What I’m Afraid to Show You shows us hidden wounds and the parts of our pathologies that hide in plain sight. It brings together two contradictory ideas: that the gaps and spaces of the body that can be cleansed are also those that can be contaminated, and that both processes entail an ache: “pure / all that impurity washed away / like ice cold water through / a missing tooth.” Central to this ache is the desire for the gaze. Tugendhat’s poems become window panes through which we watch ourselves watching—where looking becomes part of a shared documentary experience, and how fragmented and fused the language must be that records the watching. Food is an important vehicle in What I’m Afraid to Show You; it is through the common act of consumption that the self can stand to be with other bodies as mortally frail as one’s own. In this collection, Tugendhat crafts a poetic memento mori that helps us mourn those things whose value we couldn’t sense until their moment had passed.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Michael Tugendhat holds a Masters degree in poetry from the University of Glasgow. He has also studied with the Curtis Brown Agency. His poetry has appeared in The Kentucky Review, The Galway Review, Midnight Echo, and in the collection They, published by James Ward Kirk.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Five Oaks Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1944355073
• ISBN 13: 9781944355074
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 38
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