Fugue Figure

by Michael McKee Green

The book states plainly that both its speaker and the speaker's mother have suffered near- deadly head injuries ("when I woke up in the hospital thirty years after you did," "my head: / rotting pear"), resulting in loss of memory. However, rather than let a taxonomy like "family curse" sit unquestioned, Green writes toward the fugues (i.e., the condition of having one's identity questioned) by making a kind of fugue (i.e., interweaving song). Johnathan...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 160635356X
• ISBN13: 9781606353561
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Kent State University Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.3"