Lip
Book Details
Author(s)Kathy Fagan
PublisherEastern Washington University Press
ISBN / ASIN1597660493
ISBN-139781597660495
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank3,359,244
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
In this stunning fourth collection, Kathy Fagan expands her ongoing engagement of voice and persona across the borders of both traditional and experimental poetic lines. A book of monologues, portraits, and arias, Lip directs our attention to the sometimes literal ropes and pulleys of the human stage, those operating just out of sight and earshot: the understructure and the undervoice. Fagan's speakers—historical, anonymous, and often subversively female—hold forth, hold back, enfold and unleash in forms as multiply textured as their experience. Always, hovering at the mouth of the vessel, in the margin of speech, is lip: anatomical and botanical, sexual and slang, servile and insolent.

