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Fort Not

Fort Not

Skillings, Emily

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ISBN10: 0996778691
ISBN13: 9780996778695
Publisher: Song Cave
Published: Oct 1 2017
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 7.50
Language: English

Although her language sometimes suggests she is from another planet, Emily Skillings knows how history happens on ours ... [a] staggeringly beautiful, wildly off-kilter account of daily life. --John Ashbery

In her highly anticipated debut collection, Fort Not, Emily Skillings creates an atmosphere for encounter, akin to searching for meaning through lip-reading. We soon realize that these poems are speaking to us in tones that appear elegantly improvisational. And while the poems may shout from the periphery, it is not without reason, but because of their desire to direct the reader to a created space--a world that allows for curved logic, that dirty, off-gold color, middle-class nausea and metallic power to coexist. The mysteries here embrace a natural, physical music, pulling us into a moving current of painted images, poetic histories and draped bodies evaporating to reveal others behind them, as quickly as they appear.

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