(Punchy Poetry) SIGNED & INITIALED BY GILLIAN SZE on title page; Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; appears unread; In her debut collection Gillian Sze takes a random walk through the art museum and finds the drama of life framed in a series of powerful and precise artefact poems. Sze's ekphrastic verse is unrelenting in its commitment to action. Each poem follows its own impetus, the origin of which is always a deeply felt encounter, whether aesthetic, familial, erotic, or exotic. Vacillating deftly between the suspended space-time of a museum exhibit and the charged urgency of the lives she imagines, Fish bones is a collection at once stirring and arresting, tender and coolly true. Near Fine Soft cover DC Books 2009 Montreal, QC
