Lip

By Kathy Fagan

In this stunning fourth collection, Kathy Fagan expands her ongoing engagement of voice and persona across the borders of both traditional and experimental poetic lines. A book of monologues, portraits, and arias, Lip directs our attention to the sometimes literal ropes and pulleys of the human stage, those operating just out of sight and earshot: the understructure and the undervoice. Fagan's speakers--historical, anonymous, and often subversively female--hold forth, hold back, enfold and unleash in forms as multiply textured as their experience. Always, hovering at the mouth of the vessel, in the margin of speech, is lip: anatomical and botanical, sexual and slang, servile and insolent.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597660493
• ISBN13: 9781597660495
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Eastern Washington University Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.6" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 16 years and up