Syzygy, Beauty e-bog

';In Syzygy, Beauty, T Fleischmann re-imagines the essay, creating a spare little book that reads like a collection of prose poems.' (David Ulin, Los Angeles Times) In Syzygy, Beauty, T Fleischmann builds an essay of prose blocks, weaving together observations on art, the narrator's construction of a house, and a direct address to a lover. Playing with scale and repetition, we are kept off-center, and therefore always looking, as the speaker leads us through an intimate relationship that is complicated and deepened by multiple partners, gender transitions, and itinerancy. ';A complex, tightly wound (and wounded) cri de coeur that is simultaneously accessible and intensely, cryptically personal.' Minneapolis Star-Tribune ';T Fleischmann's Syzygy, Beauty shimmers with confidence as it tours the surreal chaos of gender, art, and desire... I hail its weirdness, its ';armpit frankess,' its indelible portrait of occulted relation, and above all, its impeccable music.' Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts ';This distinctive debut traces ';the past made alight by impact' through a diverse set of sources: film and carpentry analogies; interior monologues; references to artists Meret Oppenheim, Man Ray, Grayson Perry, and Louise Bourgeois; gnostic texts; and personal, yet ambiguous, disclosures.' ForeWord Reviews ';At its most basic, this unusual and engaging book describes the ins-and-outs of an unorthodox love affair, but it also functions as a sustained exploration of the ambiguities of love, gender, intimacy, and aesthetic possibilities.' Publishers Weekly