Perhaps This Is a Rescue Fantasy

by Heather Fuller

Poetry. " Heather Fuller's lines are 'moves' being made, as if in her peripheral vision where everything's happening . Her 'moves' are in this periphery 'on their own': 'I saw Graceland in the narrow of a morning.' The poems start out before we read them; or as if simultaneous, to one side of us - 'I watch for entering words/ never running away but into Out.' One has the sense of the reader being the speaker who at once does not know, hasn't pre-formed, what is being said (and what is going to be). The writing is 'the cut and joining when you are speaker and not knowing'" - Leslie Scalapino.

Genres: Poetry

72 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Author page at EPC: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/fuller/

Reviews

[Joe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Found a used copy at Second Story Books 2008. Just got around to reading it. Maybe I'll just star things over ten years old? Wrapped up by integrity of the line, especially after hyperemesis (aka super vomiting) of L-mont in Maldoror.

"Untoun" as poem I want to read again. Rhythms and sorrow in a city. And the whole book as one for me to keep in mind in thinking about writing the urbanscape, DC specifically.

and "We make Feasible / Monument for a city" as favorite line of poetry I've read in awhile.

[Mark · Rating 4 out of 5]

3 stars for the "Radia" section, 5 stars for everything else, which averages to 4 stars.