Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is Distinguished Professor of English, CUNY Graduate Center. Her many publications include A Dialogue On Love (Beacon, 1999); Tendencies (Duke, 1993); and Epistemology of the Closet (California, 1990).

"Fat Art, Thin Art is a wrenchingly honest account-or enactment-of a writer’s relation to her gift. . . . filled with hesitations, self-cancellations, erasures, and gratifying fireworks. The pleasure of Fat Art, Thin Art is witnessing Sedgwick discovering, again and again, the wonders-gorgeous shames and vindications-of what she can say."-Wayne Koestenbaum "How often the fiercest, the most autonomous American critics have been poets; from Emerson to Blackmur, from Burke to Hartman, many a discursion could be illustrated, even illuminated by reading the ulterior verse. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is such another, and it will enrich certain enigmas she has proposed, as well as appeal to certain appetites she has awakened, to immerse in this element-fragmentary at its widest reach (a deconstructed Victorian 3-decker), healing at its most abrupt (‘the yard, the mud, the morning / in their new, punished clothes’), and ever searching for the makings of the dilemma. Such is the true poetics of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and of course it is the poetry as well."-Richard Howard "Reading Fat Art, Thin Art is a thrilling experience. The publication of these poems will help to complete our picture of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick who, already recognized as one of the most extraordinary critics of her generation, now proves herself one of its truly innovative poets."-Maud Ellmann "This is poetry of a great soul which presents to mind shapely and unmistakable presences brought very close to the eye. Fat Art, Thin Art is a work of poetic distinction and indispensable human use."-Allen Grossman

• "Who fed this muse?" 3Joy. He's himself today! He knows me! 9"Grave, never offering back the face of my dear" 10"Guys who were 35 last year are 70 this year" 11The Navajo Rug 12A Vigil 13The Use of Being Fat 15"For years it drove me crazy" 16Performative (Toronto) 17Performative (San Francisco) 18"What I would be when I grew up" 19"Not like the clownish, friendly way you talk" 20Sh 21"I can tune my mind today" 22"All I know is I woke up thinking" 23Snapsh 24"Crushed. Dilapidated." 25The 58 1/2 Minute Hour 26How Not to Be There 27"Mobility, speech, sight" 28"A scar, just a scar" 29"When I got so sick it never occurred to me" 30"Little kid at the airport practicing" 31"In dreams they're interchangeable" 32Our 33"It seems there are two kinds of marriage" 34"One of us falls asleep on the other's shoulder" 35Not 36Nicht Mehr Leben 37"I'm safe so long as the single feather of our wing" 38"In dreams on which decades of marriage haven't" 39II Trace at 46 43An Essay on the Picture Plane 72Everything Always Distracts 74Sexual Hum 76Penn Central: New Haven Line 80Poet 82Sestina Lente 83III The Warm Decembers 89Note on "The Warm Decembers" 153

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is Distinguished Professor of English, CUNY Graduate Center. Her many publications include A Dialogue On Love (Beacon, 1999); Tendencies (Duke, 1993); and Epistemology of the Closet (California, 1990).

"Fat Art, Thin Art is a wrenchingly honest account-or enactment-of a writer’s relation to her gift. . . . filled with hesitations, self-cancellations, erasures, and gratifying fireworks. The pleasure of Fat Art, Thin Art is witnessing Sedgwick discovering, again and again, the wonders-gorgeous shames and vindications-of what she can say."-Wayne Koestenbaum "How often the fiercest, the most autonomous American critics have been poets; from Emerson to Blackmur, from Burke to Hartman, many a discursion could be illustrated, even illuminated by reading the ulterior verse. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is such another, and it will enrich certain enigmas she has proposed, as well as appeal to certain appetites she has awakened, to immerse in this element-fragmentary at its widest reach (a deconstructed Victorian 3-decker), healing at its most abrupt (‘the yard, the mud, the morning / in their new, punished clothes’), and ever searching for the makings of the dilemma. Such is the true poetics of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and of course it is the poetry as well."-Richard Howard "Reading Fat Art, Thin Art is a thrilling experience. The publication of these poems will help to complete our picture of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick who, already recognized as one of the most extraordinary critics of her generation, now proves herself one of its truly innovative poets."-Maud Ellmann "This is poetry of a great soul which presents to mind shapely and unmistakable presences brought very close to the eye. Fat Art, Thin Art is a work of poetic distinction and indispensable human use."-Allen Grossman

• "Who fed this muse?" 3Joy. He's himself today! He knows me! 9"Grave, never offering back the face of my dear" 10"Guys who were 35 last year are 70 this year" 11The Navajo Rug 12A Vigil 13The Use of Being Fat 15"For years it drove me crazy" 16Performative (Toronto) 17Performative (San Francisco) 18"What I would be when I grew up" 19"Not like the clownish, friendly way you talk" 20Sh 21"I can tune my mind today" 22"All I know is I woke up thinking" 23Snapsh 24"Crushed. Dilapidated." 25The 58 1/2 Minute Hour 26How Not to Be There 27"Mobility, speech, sight" 28"A scar, just a scar" 29"When I got so sick it never occurred to me" 30"Little kid at the airport practicing" 31"In dreams they're interchangeable" 32Our 33"It seems there are two kinds of marriage" 34"One of us falls asleep on the other's shoulder" 35Not 36Nicht Mehr Leben 37"I'm safe so long as the single feather of our wing" 38"In dreams on which decades of marriage haven't" 39II Trace at 46 43An Essay on the Picture Plane 72Everything Always Distracts 74Sexual Hum 76Penn Central: New Haven Line 80Poet 82Sestina Lente 83III The Warm Decembers 89Note on "The Warm Decembers" 153