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Fugue Figure

Fugue Figure

Green
Mattawa, Khaled

Paperback

Series: Wick First Book, Book 24

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $15.00

ISBN10: 160635356X
ISBN13: 9781606353561
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: Sep 13 2018
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

The book states plainly that both its speaker and the speaker's mother have suffered near- deadly head injuries (when I woke up in the hospital thirty years after you did, my head: / rotting pear), resulting in loss of memory. However, rather than let a taxonomy like family curse sit unquestioned, Green writes toward the fugues (i.e., the condition of having one's identity questioned) by making a kind of fugue (i.e., interweaving song). Johnathan Culler writes that the fundamental characteristic of the lyric . . . is not the description and interpretation of a past event, but the iterative and utterable performance of an event in the lyric present, in the special 'now' of lyric articulation. The lyric in Fugue Figure allows the unspeakable past to be uttered in the lyric present, and the form of diptychs and triptychs through the book place disparate lyric utterances together on the same page. While lyric addresses allow the reader to reach toward the speaker's unknowns, the triptychs and diptychs allow the reader to reach toward the unnamable place between left and right signifiers, both adding to the vital enigma of the poems.

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