Breathe on four. Define your terms. What is this desire? Attuned to a body in motion, Swim pulls the reader beneath the logic of prose, into the eroticism of language itself. The arcing rhythm of a body breathing--a woman marking her birth as she swims in a pool--sustains the unique and hypnotic language that becomes the medium through which this story moves. Swim entwines the present with those past actions and...