Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay

A Lyric Essay

Cover Art for 9781644450895, Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay by Lars Horn
ISBN: 9781644450895
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 7 June, 2022
Format: Paperback
Links Pan Macmillan
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Lars Horn's Voice of the Fish, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, is a kaleidoscopic, hallucinatory memoir that explores the trans experience through meditations upon aquatic life and mythology, set against the backdrop of travels in Russia and a debilitating injury that left Horn temporarily unable to speak, read and write. In their adept hands, these poignant, allusive shards take shape as a unified whole: short vignettes about fish, reliquaries and antiquities serve as interludes between - and subtle reflections upon - longer memories of their life, knitting together a sinuous, wave-like form that flows across the book.


Horn swims through a range of subjects; across marine history, theology, questions of the body and gender, sexuality, transmasculinity and illness. From their childhood modelling for their mother's art installations - immersed in a bath with dead squid; encased in a full-body plaster cast - to their travels before they w ere out as trans, these beguiling fragments are linked by a desire to interrogate the physical, and to
identify the current beneath. Horn re-examines presumptions about the unchanging nature of the body, privileging instead ways of seeing and being that resist binaries, ways that falter, fracture, mutate. Sensuous and immersive, Voice of the Fish is unique: a masterful and moving achievement.

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