{"product_id":"voice-of-the-fish-a-lyric-essay","title":"Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Lars Horn\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Graywolf Press (2022)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLars Horn’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eVoice of the Fish\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe latest Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize winner, is an interwoven essay collection that explores the trans experience through themes of water, fish, and mythology, set against the backdrop of travels in Russia and a debilitating back injury that left Horn temporarily unable to speak. In Horn’s adept hands, the collection takes shape as a unified book: short vignettes about fish, reliquaries, and antiquities serve as interludes between longer essays, knitting together a sinuous, wave-like form that flows across the book.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHorn swims through a range of subjects, roving across marine history, theology, questions of the body and gender, sexuality, transmasculinity, and illness. From Horn’s upbringing with a mother who used them as a model in photos and art installations—memorably in a photography session in an ice bath with dead squid—to Horn’s travels before they were out as trans, these essays are linked by a desire to interrogate liminal physicalities. Horn reexamines the oft-presumed uniformity of bodily experience, breaking down the implied singularity of “the body” as cultural and scientific object. The essays instead privilege ways of seeing and being that resist binaries, ways that falter, fracture, mutate. A sui generis work of nonfiction, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVoice of the Fish \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eblends the aquatic, mystical, and physical to reach a place beyond them all.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e“Ocean-deep and brimming with beauty, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eVoice of the Fish\u003c\/span\u003e is a wondrous book, formed with the expansiveness and strong currents of a vast body of water. I didn't want to leave until I'd seen every glowing image.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e–Elissa Washuta\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e“\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eVoice of the Fish\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is a mighty and innovative work unshackled from the patriarchal and heteronormative syntax and prose of the accepted literary cannon, and scalpled into a new way of writing, and therefore understanding, great literary work and memoir. Adventurous, bold, antiauthoritarian, and physical, we would all be well served to take note of this generation of new writers to which Horn belongs, sending us missives from the future of language and storytelling—more exacting, broad and excellent than we have yet imagined.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e–Casey Legler\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e“Casting a wide net into the realms of knowing and existing, trawling the depths of the past and the body, Lars Horn steers us in pristine and ponderous prose to places where the body is washed up, transformed, reborn. \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eVoice of the Fish \u003c\/span\u003eis a dazzling assemblage of essaying at its finest, a unique dive into history, philosophy, memory, and wonder. It is a voice that swims bravely against the current, finds its origin, and emerges with sequined scales of sparkling language, brilliant in its inked imaginative form.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e–Jenny Boully\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40074767433827,"sku":"9781644450895","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/8655\/1139\/products\/image_272f73da-2cb7-4f35-b524-b91d8504b9ba.jpg?v=1663966285","url":"https:\/\/woodlandpatternbookcenter.com\/products\/voice-of-the-fish-a-lyric-essay","provider":"Woodland Pattern","version":"1.0","type":"link"}