**A rare and beautifully produced "accordion" book by renowned novelist and poet Anne Michaels and acclaimed artist and writer Bernice Eisenstein that will cause a stir for both its form and its content.** Anne Michaels's resonant book-length poem--which unfolds on one side of the pages of this
Correspondences: A poem and portraits
โ Scribed by Michaels, Anne; Eisenstein, Bernice
- Book ID
- 107806430
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 5 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780307962515
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โฆ Synopsis
A rare and beautifully produced "accordion" book by renowned novelist and poet Anne Michaels and acclaimed artist and writer Bernice Eisenstein that will cause a stir for both its form and its content.
Anne Michaels's resonant book-length poem--which unfolds on one side of the pages of this accordion book--ranges from the universal to the intimate, as she writes of historical figures for whom language was the closest thing to salvation; on the other side, we have Bernice Eisenstein's luminous portraits of and quotes from such twentieth-century writers and thinkers as Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs, W. G. Sebald, Anna Akhmatova, Primo Levi, and Albert Einstein. The poetry and portraits join together in a dialogue that can be read in any direction and any order, in a format that perfectly reflects the thematic interconnectedness of this collaboration: "an alphabet of spirits and spirit; an elegy of remembrance" (Eisenstein); "just as a conversation becomes the third side...
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