Description
In Fabulae, Joy Katz interrogates the physical world, turning it over and over in her mind, constructing a sensual and striking autobiography. Her poems find flaws in how we live in the world and suffer from desire but still come back to find delight in it - the language, the objects, and the physical body. She delves into the familiarity and strangeness of the body - its surfaces compared with the inner workings. She questions the many received images / notions about rulers and shapers of the universe, both generally and for the artist. She is relentlessly aware of the failure of words to communicate and preserve experience yet rejoices in the palpable beauty of words, even the letterforms that make them up. For Katz, a subject can be awful and immoral but not without its pleasure, too.
About the Author
Joy Katz held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing at Stanford University and the Nadya Aisenberg Fellowship at the MacDowell Colony. She has taught literature and writing at Stanford and at Washington University in St. Louis, where she received her M.F.A. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals including Antioch Review, Chelsea, Fence, and Southwest Review. She was trained in industrial design and works in Manhattan as a graphic designer, editor, and writer.
Reviews
Joy Katz is the quintessential storyteller, spinning her marvelous tales out of the gossamer of the imagination, but always with the goal of capturing the flash and flicker of the real world. In her fine nets, she defamiliarizes the history we thought we knew and weaves her own voice, brilliant, mocking, passionate, clear as a bell, into the muffled sighs of a history that's been hidden from us. But the pleasure of reading Fabulae comes also from the way the elements of narrative, from the simple to the fabulous, are compressed into beautifully crafted poems. There's no background hum in this wonderful book-no skimming allowed. Katz combines the art of the fabulator with the art of the sculptor. Hers is a distinctive and original voice.-Maura Stanton, author of Glacier Wine ""The coordinates for the landscape so beautifully staked out in Joy Katz's Fabulae are language and desire, the dangerous and the fear that we might 'like it like heaven...and be lost.' In poems shot through with grace, intellect, and control, Katz considers the history and culture we all stand, finally, as heirs to: from Dachau to the deceptively still surfaces of American suburbia, from Proserpina to Plath, from the subjugation of women to the lust for empire-the result is a collection as rich as it is ambitious, announcing an already accomplished new voice in poetry.""-Carl Phillips, author of Pastoral
Book Information
ISBN 9780809324446
Author Joy Katz
Format Paperback
Page Count 88
Imprint Southern Illinois University Press
Publisher Southern Illinois University Press
Weight(grams) 198g
Dimensions(mm) 226mm * 157mm * 8mm
About the Author
Joy Katz held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing at Stanford University and the Nadya Aisenberg Fellowship at the MacDowell Colony. She has taught literature and writing at Stanford and at Washington University in St. Louis, where she received her M.F.A. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals including Antioch Review, Chelsea, Fence, and Southwest Review. She was trained in industrial design and works in Manhattan as a graphic designer, editor, and writer.
Reviews
Joy Katz is the quintessential storyteller, spinning her marvelous tales out of the gossamer of the imagination, but always with the goal of capturing the flash and flicker of the real world. In her fine nets, she defamiliarizes the history we thought we knew and weaves her own voice, brilliant, mocking, passionate, clear as a bell, into the muffled sighs of a history that's been hidden from us. But the pleasure of reading Fabulae comes also from the way the elements of narrative, from the simple to the fabulous, are compressed into beautifully crafted poems. There's no background hum in this wonderful book-no skimming allowed. Katz combines the art of the fabulator with the art of the sculptor. Hers is a distinctive and original voice.-Maura Stanton, author of Glacier Wine ""The coordinates for the landscape so beautifully staked out in Joy Katz's Fabulae are language and desire, the dangerous and the fear that we might 'like it like heaven...and be lost.' In poems shot through with grace, intellect, and control, Katz considers the history and culture we all stand, finally, as heirs to: from Dachau to the deceptively still surfaces of American suburbia, from Proserpina to Plath, from the subjugation of women to the lust for empire-the result is a collection as rich as it is ambitious, announcing an already accomplished new voice in poetry.""-Carl Phillips, author of Pastoral
Book Information
ISBN 9780809324446
Author Joy Katz
Format Paperback
Page Count 88
Imprint Southern Illinois University Press
Publisher Southern Illinois University Press
Weight(grams) 198g
Dimensions(mm) 226mm * 157mm * 8mm
