The Fastening

The fifth book of poetry by Julie Doxsee, "The Fastening," explores the lasting imprints of love, childhood, death, and pleasure, shifting and jolting landscapes, and recognizing the violence-borne imprints that have kept her alive.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 112 pages
Publication date: 30 June 2022
Publisher: Black Ocean

The fifth book of poetry by a true poet, a poet with a unique mastery of language and experimentation, is a testament to the power of words. Julie Doxsee's The Fastening explores the permanent imprints of love, childhood, death, and pleasure, elongating them, handling them delicately, celebrating them, puzzling over them, and underpinning them with hauntingly vicious origins. The landscapes in the book shift and jolt, melting into snowman slush or gashing the flesh with matter-of-fact craters, thorns, rope burns, and rocks. The poet desires to scrub the sharp peaks with steel wool but recognizes how millions of these violence-borne imprints have ganged up to keep her alive. In The Fastening, bodies are soft sketches that could detonate at the pop of a flashbulb, diffuse into a cloud of vapor, or escape into a small recess with just enough space to breathe.

The fifth book of poetry by a true poet, a poet with a unique mastery of language and experimentation, is a testament to the power of words. Julie Doxsee's The Fastening explores the permanent imprints of love, childhood, death, and pleasure, elongating them, handling them delicately, celebrating them, puzzling over them, and underpinning them with hauntingly vicious origins. The landscapes in the book shift and jolt, melting into snowman slush or gashing the flesh with matter-of-fact craters, thorns, rope burns, and rocks. The poet desires to scrub the sharp peaks with steel wool but recognizes how millions of these violence-borne imprints have ganged up to keep her alive. In The Fastening, bodies are soft sketches that could detonate at the pop of a flashbulb, diffuse into a cloud of vapor, or escape into a small recess with just enough space to breathe.

Dimension: 177 x 107 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781939568496