Kate Fagan's The Long Moment is a gorgeous and brilliant book, a
work of complex sensuousness and deep intelligence. Fagan brings to
her work the microcosmically precise insights of a geologist or
biologist, but the writings are informed also by a strong sense of
social history. Each poem, even each page, is a specific site for
study, for sentience, and for politics. Observations from everyday
life move into sharp focus alongside formal meditations on the act
of perception itself. Fagan's compressed lyricism takes stock of
the material world, exploring relations between living bodies and
things while allowing each to remain distinct and mobile. Poems are
lineated to suit the specific pressures and drifts of Fagan's
thinking, with issues of sonic and technical control remaining
central throughout. The book's `Anti-landscape' sequence gathers
several key preoccupations of late twentieth-century Australian
poetry and inverts them to offer a new, politically astute mode of
geographical address. Overheard fragments from contemporary media
sit alongside intimate findings in `The waste of tongues,' creating
a narrative that is both calmly persuasive and critically telling.
The long moment of this book's details is beautiful; in The Long
Moment the site at which they collect has become astoundingly
meaningful.
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