num_pages: 126
description: An enthralling new work by one of America's foremost experimental writers. Thalia Field's inventive new book explores the very condition of being 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 it "industriously works the sparsely populated and as yet underdeveloped borderlands between poetry, fiction, theater, and contemporary classical music" ( Review of Contemporary Fiction ). In 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, Story Material challenges and moves us.
language: English
title: Incarnate: Story Material
titlecomplete: Incarnate: Story Material
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 47
publisher: New Directions