{"title":"Kit Kelen","description":"\u003cp\u003eKit Kelen's work offers a compelling exploration of \u003cstrong\u003earts and culture\u003c\/strong\u003e, weaving personal narrative with broader reflections. Readers can expect thoughtful, evocative writing that delves into themes of family, identity, and creative expression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a style that is both intimate and illuminating, \u003cem\u003eBook of Mother\u003c\/em\u003e and other titles by Kit Kelen invite contemplation and a deeper understanding of the human experience through the lens of contemporary culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"book-of-mother-by-kit-kelen-9781922571274","title":"Book of Mother","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBook of Mother\u003c\/i\u003e is an exploration of the mother\/son relationship and of language and consciousness as these are entered and left. This book is an intimate encounter with dementia as lived experience. Words are an important way into the world and when we begin to lose them, we find ourselves with fewer tools and fewer familiar signs to go by. Phrases lost and tip-of-the-tongue half-forgettings—loose threads like these belong to the everyday business of knowing who we are. They are also the nuts and bolts of Kit Kelen's poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis beautifully sustained poetic sequence is a virtuoso work. With his characteristic wit and generosity, Kit Kelen slips lightly between the surreal syntax and loss of meaning of dementia, the broken words of grief and charmed reminiscences of childhood. Heartachingly honest, and always linguistically surprising, \u003ci\u003eBook of Mother\u003c\/i\u003e is like a magic pudding. The slices of its world that are lost are vividly returned as the book ponders the importance of remembering and being remembered, moving between present and past, dream and memory, to become both a profoundly moving celebration of his mother's life, and the life she has given him.\u003c\/b\u003e — Jean Kent\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat happens when the first Other in your life, a being whose existence is so embedded in the deep reaches of your consciousness, begins to lose her own memories, and is eventually erased from this embodied world? How can a son capture such a kaleidoscope of meaning? Kit Kelen takes light and refracts it on the page in this beautiful and loving meditation.\u003c\/b\u003e — Beth Spencer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThere is great vulnerability, beauty, and strength in Kit Kelen's \u003ci\u003eBook of Mother\u003c\/i\u003e. What Kelen leaves in the spaces between, in 'the words under the words', is where 'the light shines through' in this intense, teary, sweet and cheeky act of deep longing and remembrance. Although he writes that \"there really isn't an order of things\", the power of this book dwells in the structures of forgetting and remembering, in writing that commits to the puzzling quality and the heartbreaking texture of memory in ways both sustained and fleeting.\u003c\/b\u003e — Greg McLaren\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47595843551468,"sku":"9781922571274","price":58.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781922571274-book-of-mother.jpg?v=1777909061"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/kit-kelen.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}