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No Sweeter Fat by Nancy Pagh
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ISBN (paperback): 978-1-932870-13-8 About the Book These poems take an elaborate look at the persistent complication of desire through the lens of obesity and body consciousness. At times the language is poignantly raw, at other moments tender, understated, then humorous to get at the diffuse agonies that might, otherwise, be lost to silence. – Tim Seibles Like Walt Whitman, the bard she often resurrects in her work, Nancy Pagh comes at you straight from the heart, no holds barred, pure energy and emotion and exuberance barely contained. From her darkly funny “fat lady” poems, to her keen renderings of love anticipated and altered, through her willingness to kneel eye-to-eye with death, her honesty and wit compel and convince us that poetry happens everywhere: in the bathtub, at the doctor’s office, on the treadmill at the gym, and we come away from these poems viewing the world a little differently with, in her words, “the articulated brilliance/that comes/after pulling away/the abalone’s meat.” You will simply love these poems. – Brenda Miller About the Author Nancy Pagh was born and raised on Fidalgo Island in Anacortes, Washington. She burst onto the literary scene at age twelve with the publication of her poem “Is a Clam Clammy, or Is It Just Wet?” in a local boating magazine. Before earning Master’s degrees in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of New Hampshire, and a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of British Columbia, she worked in the scientific publications unit of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration in Seattle. She teaches English and Canadian Studies at Western Washington University and lives in Bellingham. Nancy’s work has appeared in numerous publications, including Poetry Northwest, Crab Creek Review, Rattle, Grain, Pontoon, The Bellingham Review, Room of One’s Own, B.C. Studies, Stories with Grace, and Rock Salt Plum. At Home Afloat, her study of women’s travel language at sea, was co-published in 2001 by the University of Idaho Press and the University of Calgary Press. No Sweeter Fat, selected by Tim Seibles as the winner of the 2006 Autumn House Prize, is her first collection of poems. |
