Memory

A poet’s spacious exploration of time, memory, and art, in homage to Bernadette Mayer. A spiritual homage to Bernadette Mayer’s monumental artwork of the same title, Dorothea Lasky’s Expansive in her quest for answers, Lasky launches an inspired investigation of the forces that form our lives and deepest senses of ourselves. She identifies three dimensions of memory--ancestral, personal, and poetic--and in her singularly clear voice, undertakes to enter into their mysteries. From those recesses, she returns with a wide-ranging collection of essays that like lyric poems find the universal inside the particular. Like Mayer before her, Lasky reveals memory to be huge and haunting, as she accumulates impressions that challenge the very possibility of fixed meaning. “Every rose has the scent of death,” she writes. “And poetry is a perfume. That will stay on your body forever.… Whatever happens this time around, remember that.”

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Dorothea Lasky
• Edition: Random House USA
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 04.11.2025, retardé
• EAN: 9781635902594
• ISBN: 978-1-63590-259-4
• Pages: 264
• Thème: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits) > Correspondance, journaux intimes; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Art