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Calamities

Renee Gladman author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Wave Books

Published:22nd Sep '16

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Gladman will exhibit and read at various galleries and museums around the U.S. to promote the book and her visual art, which is discussed in the book. She discusses issues of race, gender, and sexuality in the book, which make it an interesting choice for teaching and reviewing. Co-op available. Galley and review copy mailing to major trade and print publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper's, Poets & Writers, Bookforum, NPR, and the Boston Review. Promotion at academic conferences and in our academic newsletter. Excerpts in Open Letter and in the Pen Poetry Series.

Thinking collapses and remerges in this metafictional collection of essays following a writer and artist at work.A collection of linked essays concerned with the life and mind of the writer by one of the most original voices in contemporary literature. Each essay takes a day as its point of inquiry, observing the body as it moves through time, architecture, and space, gradually demanding a new logic and level of consciousness from the narrator and reader.

"Renee Gladman has always struck me as being a dreamer--she writes that way and the dreaming seems to construct the architecture of the world unfolding before our reading eyes." --Eileen Myles "Gladman's talent for linguistic architecture makes for a supple, tight promenade through heady ideas whose appeal rests on the implicit connection it draws between a people, their language, and the shape of communication." --Publishers Weekly "She offers entry into a deliciously unsettling "narrative," really, a sort of adventure. She reassembles art she likes and makes new art--all in service of creating a new art "experience," suggesting a chain-letter of creation." --Olivia Cronk, Bookslut "Her wrestling with the basic ideas of fiction--and its osmotic border with poetry--can lead to spectacular instances of art, passages at home in strangeness, maneuvering with uncanny grace in fields of indeterminacy and unknowing." --Eugene Lim

ISBN: 9781940696287

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 297g

144 pages