This Is My Body: Poems: Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize
Autor Jonathan Fletcheren Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 ian 2025
This Is My Body readily and unapologetically examines issues of race and ethnicity, ancestry and community, mental illness and recovery, queer sexuality and identity, and the body and disability. Traditionally religious language and hopeful imagery abound; so, too, do their spiritual antagonists: doubt, loss, isolation, and despair. But even in the darkest moments of a troubled inner life, insight and triumph intervene and sometimes even linger. An intimate exploration of the human experience, this debut collection proves itself more than the sum of its interior encounters—however revelatory or transformative any one given experience might be. It is a timely and necessary exercise in faith.
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ISBN-13: 9780810148253
ISBN-10: 0810148250
Pagini: 40
Dimensiuni: 127 x 178 x 5 mm
Greutate: 0.06 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
Seria Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize
ISBN-10: 0810148250
Pagini: 40
Dimensiuni: 127 x 178 x 5 mm
Greutate: 0.06 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
Seria Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize
Notă biografică
JONATHAN FLETCHER is a Pushcart Prize nominee whose work has been featured in numerous literary journals and magazines. He currently serves as a Zoeglossia Fellow and lives in San Antonio, Texas.
Cuprins
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Jonathan
Dirigibles
Killing Crockett
Stigmata
Near-Death Experience
Coconut
Velcro
Dr. Bailey
Porcelain Mother
Mummy
This Is My Body
Dinocampus coccinellae
Medusa
W.W.J.D.
Self-Portrait as Whiter, Happier
Marble
Phineas Gage
Meet Me Not in the Seventh Circle
Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Evolution of an Organism
Scales
Boys
Foreword
Jonathan
Dirigibles
Killing Crockett
Stigmata
Near-Death Experience
Coconut
Velcro
Dr. Bailey
Porcelain Mother
Mummy
This Is My Body
Dinocampus coccinellae
Medusa
W.W.J.D.
Self-Portrait as Whiter, Happier
Marble
Phineas Gage
Meet Me Not in the Seventh Circle
Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Evolution of an Organism
Scales
Boys
Recenzii
"Jonathan Fletcher's poems confront the reader with an almost unbearable directness. The mysteries they make are most often paradoxically engendered by their clarity--reading a Fletcher poem, one feels one cannot possibly be reading such a direct, clear thing, and becomes disoriented by one's suspicion of one's comprehension, and a chasm opens between oneself and the poem. But the chasm is a gift--it is in the chasm that the poem echoes, and it is from the chasm that the poem haunts."
-Shane McCrae, author of Cain Named the Animal
“‘Let’s alter the image,’ Jonathan Fletcher writes in a poetic self-portrait filled with longing and shame. ‘Or, better yet, let’s fracture it.’ His debut chapbook examines the fractures we see in ourselves and the fractures the world sees in us. Imaginative, deftly rendered, and defiant in the face of the pains and denials of masculinity, illness, and discrimination, the poems of This Is My Body are unapologetic expressions of self.”
-Richie Hofmann, author of A Hundred Lovers
"In this brave suite of lyrico-narrative poems, Jonathan Fletcher offers his heart and his history “laid as bare to you / as a nude statue.” Chiseling away anything extraneous, Fletcher cuts through all the haze of life, distilling from disorderly experience a clearcut understanding of who he is and what path he took to get there. With their startling candor and exactitude of self-study, these poems remind me at times of the work of Frank Bidart, who might likewise say of the risen Christ: “I’ll believe it when I finger His wounds; / then I want Him to feel mine.” In This Is My Body, you will feel Fletcher’s wounds, but also his innocent wonder, seemingly inexhaustible hope, hard-won self-knowledge and -acceptance, and profound creative joy."
-Timothy Donnelly, author of The Cloud Corporation
"Jonathan Fletcher's poems draw us into the quiet, ordinary spaces--dens, bathtubs, bedrooms--to reveal the resonant and extraordinary transformations that take place within them. Here are poems of blood and dust and buckskin crafted with a tenderness and deep regard for the body's longings and losses. There is no wound or desire that Fletcher's poetry is afraid to touch. And in his exquisitely rendered moments of vulnerability we are awakened to the possibilities of erotic union and of spiritual deliverance."
-Deborah Paredez, author of Year of the Dog
"Jonathan Fletcher’s poems move with a supple feline silence within and around some of the most intimate and tender, and, also, some of the most terrible, of experiences. They are a triumph of imaginative balance, clarity, and integrity in the face of all of reality’s powerful manifestations."
-Vijay Seshadri, author of 3 Sections
-Shane McCrae, author of Cain Named the Animal
“‘Let’s alter the image,’ Jonathan Fletcher writes in a poetic self-portrait filled with longing and shame. ‘Or, better yet, let’s fracture it.’ His debut chapbook examines the fractures we see in ourselves and the fractures the world sees in us. Imaginative, deftly rendered, and defiant in the face of the pains and denials of masculinity, illness, and discrimination, the poems of This Is My Body are unapologetic expressions of self.”
-Richie Hofmann, author of A Hundred Lovers
"In this brave suite of lyrico-narrative poems, Jonathan Fletcher offers his heart and his history “laid as bare to you / as a nude statue.” Chiseling away anything extraneous, Fletcher cuts through all the haze of life, distilling from disorderly experience a clearcut understanding of who he is and what path he took to get there. With their startling candor and exactitude of self-study, these poems remind me at times of the work of Frank Bidart, who might likewise say of the risen Christ: “I’ll believe it when I finger His wounds; / then I want Him to feel mine.” In This Is My Body, you will feel Fletcher’s wounds, but also his innocent wonder, seemingly inexhaustible hope, hard-won self-knowledge and -acceptance, and profound creative joy."
-Timothy Donnelly, author of The Cloud Corporation
"Jonathan Fletcher's poems draw us into the quiet, ordinary spaces--dens, bathtubs, bedrooms--to reveal the resonant and extraordinary transformations that take place within them. Here are poems of blood and dust and buckskin crafted with a tenderness and deep regard for the body's longings and losses. There is no wound or desire that Fletcher's poetry is afraid to touch. And in his exquisitely rendered moments of vulnerability we are awakened to the possibilities of erotic union and of spiritual deliverance."
-Deborah Paredez, author of Year of the Dog
"Jonathan Fletcher’s poems move with a supple feline silence within and around some of the most intimate and tender, and, also, some of the most terrible, of experiences. They are a triumph of imaginative balance, clarity, and integrity in the face of all of reality’s powerful manifestations."
-Vijay Seshadri, author of 3 Sections
Descriere
This Is My Body takes us on a journey through times of darkness within the human experience, sitting with the trials of mental illness, queer sexuality, and the body.