Calamities by Renee Gladman (English) Paperback Book

Description: Calamities by Renee Gladman Thinking collapses and remerges in this metafictional collection of essays following a writer and artist at work. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Author Biography 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. Review "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 "Gladmans 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 Promotional 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, Harpers, 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. Long Description 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. Review Quote "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 "Gladmans 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 Competing Titles Bluets Maggie Nelson 9781933517407 16.00 Wave Books 2009 Ban en Banlieue Bhanu Kapil 9781937658243 15.95 Nightboat 2015 A Sand Book Ariana Reines 9780986437366 17.95 Fence 2016 Cinema of the Present Lisa Robertson 9781552452974 17.95 Coach House 2014 MxT Sina Queyras 9781552452905 17.95 Coach House 2014 Description for Sales People Renee Gladman is a notable academic, having served teaching appointments at Harvard, Brown, Pratt, Naropa University, Bard, and University of California, San Diego. This is Gladmans 9th book. She has a following of fans who know her from her poetry and experimental fiction, as well as her work as the editor and publisher of Leon Works and Leroy. Calamities is Gladmans most accessible book. Its a collection of essays, part fiction and part memoir, each describing one day in the life of the narrator. She unfolds the frustrations and complications of being a teacher, writer, reader, and artist. This is a perfect book for an undergraduate or graduate creative writing class. It can be taught as a memoir, lyric essay, experimental novel, or short prose. She is a 2016 grant recipient for her poetry and prose from the prestigious Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Details ISBN1940696275 Author Renee Gladman Short Title CALAMITIES Publisher Wave Books Language English ISBN-10 1940696275 ISBN-13 9781940696270 Media Book Format Paperback Pages 144 Year 2016 Imprint Wave Books Place of Publication Seattle Country of Publication United States UK Release Date 2016-09-22 Publication Date 2016-09-22 NZ Release Date 2016-09-22 US Release Date 2016-09-22 DEWEY 828 Audience General AU Release Date 2016-09-12 Alternative 9781940696287 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:100447890;

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