No Sweeter Fat
Winner of the 2006 Poetry Prize, selected by Tim Seibles
US List Price: $14.95
No Sweeter Fat
Winner of the 2006 Poetry Prize, selected by Tim Seibles
US List Price: $14.95
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Praise for No Sweeter Fat
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 SeiblesLike 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
Nancy Pagh has authored three poetry collections No Sweeter Fat (Autumn House Press), After (Floating Bridge Press), and Once Removed (Moonpath Press); one book of nonfiction, At Home Afloat, (University of Calgary Press); and a textbook for creative writers, Write Moves: A Creative Writing Guide & Anthology (Broadview Press). She gives public readings, lectures, and workshops […]
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