Incarnate: Story Material

An enthralling new work by one of America's foremost experimental writers. Thalia Field's inventive new book explores the very condition of being incarnate: how, invested with human form, we experience both suffering and ecstasy from childhood to adulthood to death. As with her previous book published by New Directions, Point and Line (2000), Incarnate defies categorization: it "industriously works the sparsely populated and as yet underdeveloped borderlands between poetry, fiction, theater, and contemporary classical music" (Review of Contemporary Fiction). In Incarnate: Story Material, she continues to reach beyond borders, examining how, trapped in our own stories, we act and react in a world of solidity, perceiving something "other" close at hand. With its amazing variety of poetic and prose-like forms, driven by a fierce and playful intelligence, Incarnate: Story Material challenges and moves us.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 10/01/2004
ISBN: 9780811215992
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.42w x 0.45d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 11/22/2004 pg. 57