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Calamities
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Ideal for readers interested in contemporary literature that pushes the boundaries of genre, especially those fascinated by essays, linguistic innovation, and contemplations on art and consciousness.
Thinking collapses and remerges in this metafictional collection of essays following a writer and artist at work.
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.
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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, this process demands a new logic and level of consciousness from the narrator and reader.
Calamities invites readers to explore a relationship between time, physicality, and the landscapes we inhabit, offering a unique perspective that challenges traditional narrative forms.
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Critics praise Gladman's visionary and dreamlike prose. Eileen Myles describes her as a dreamer constructing the architecture of the world with language. Publishers Weekly highlights her skill in linguistic architecture and the connection she draws between people, language, and communication. Olivia Cronk notes her work as a reassembly of art that creates a new artistic experience, while Eugene Lim applauds her blending of fiction and poetry, producing striking passages rich in intrigue and grace.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781940696270
Publisher: Wave Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 22 September 2016
Country: United States
Imprint: Wave Books
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 139.0mm
Height: 203.0mm
Weight: 198g
Pages: 144
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About the Author
Renee Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with lines, crossings, thresholds, geographies, and syntaxes as they play out in the interstices of poetry and prose. She is the author of ten published works, including a cycle of novels about the city-state Ravicka and its inhabitants, the Ravickians; Calamities, a collection of linked essays on writing and experience, which won the 2017 Firecracker Award in Nonfiction; and a monograph of ink drawings, Prose Architectures. She lives in New England with poet-ceremonialist Danielle Vogel.
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