Cara Benson edits the online journal Sous Rature. Her book (made) is forthcoming from BookThug.
Swim by Marianne ApostolidesBookThug 2009
If ever there was a feminist beach read, Swim is it. Get ready for a Lacanian submersion in language as a swimming narrator seeks through strokes and breath a metaphor for her failing marriage. As slippery as water is the chronology as story surfaces and dialogue - did someone say that? - folds in the waves of the lines. Subconscious rises at great risk. Birth, betrayal, bite. Consider yourself warned.
1-blush astonish surrender pulsing count laps
2-gasped
3-rolled over to hug my partner
4-cause you to count your breathing
5-swims [I know it’s obvious, but boy…
6-blue wave
7-“Shush, she’d say, then read a story - spoken, soothing - the words not grasped as logic - discrete, defined - but rather as sound with rounded intention - offered as maternal/love, directly onto the body.”
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