The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic!: Essays

A rivers edge if approached too close can sweep a body beyond itself. In The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic! Miah Jeffra perfects apostrophe as canticle a host of heroes beckoning the reader a knee deeper into the waters of another selfhood Madonna Mary Shelley Felix Gonzalez Torres Plato and Jeffras mother among them. At once gossamer and gauze Jeffra explores the nature of gender sexuality aesthetics and love taking a tiny hammer to the stability of the limits of perception troubling the tether between perception and memory. At once memoir and cultural criticism The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic! discovers itself as a book about forgiveness family and the truths we find in the lightness of a door the probability of a radio the long line between one story and another.