Culturing Writing. Art. In YOUR BODY FIGURED, Douglas A. Martin
presents the reader with three prose pieces, each focused on an
artist: the painter Balthus, the poet Hart Crane, and finally the
Irish painter Francis Bacon as seen through his relationship with
model and muse, George Dyer. Each section is a meditation on the
relationship between art and life, artist and model, subject and
object--evidence of the troubled landscape at the core of human
desire and creative production. Martin reaches out to the reader
through his near-incantatory use of the second person
point-of-view, so that one constantly feels called upon to respond,
to return to the text. Evoking a myriad of twentieth century
writers--Kathy Acker, Marguerite Duras, Andre Gide, among
others--Martin's work breaks from perceived form to create a
trilogy of serial narratives that bring the life of the modern
artist up against the limits of the body and language. Douglas A.
Martin is the author of two novels (Branwell, Outline of My Lover),
a book of stories (They Change the Subject), a collection of poetry
(In the Time of Assignments) and a coauthor of a book of haiku. He
lives in Brooklyn.
General
Imprint: |
Nightboat Books
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2008 |
First published: |
October 2008 |
Authors: |
Douglas A. Martin
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Dimensions: |
190 x 140 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Pages: |
156 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-9767185-8-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General
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LSN: |
0-9767185-8-8 |
Barcode: |
9780976718581 |
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