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Chai, E: Standing Water

Om Chai, E: Standing Water

A profound literary debut that recounts a child's singular storySince I made you, you may imagine I set myself on fire- or better, say: you lit the funeral pyre from ten thousand days away.A young woman in Paris encounters an uncanny presence on a tour of a small museum. A study by Rodin of the dancer Little Hanako-titled Head of Sorrow-triggers in the young woman recognition of her mother, a mother erased from her life since childhood. Thus begins Eleanor Chai's Standing Water, one of the most remarkable first books of poetry in recent years. It is a journey into the past as well as the present-into the narrative hidden from the poet since birth, as well as the strategies that she has adopted to survive. It is a journey about how we learn to cope with, to perceive and describe, the world. It is a story about savage privilege and deprivation. Haunting the whole is the figure of the real Little Hanako-Rodin's model, a Japanese artist displaced in Europe, the medium through which other artists dream and discover the world.

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  • Språk:
  • Ukjent
  • ISBN:
  • 9780374269487
  • Bindende:
  • Hardback
  • Sider:
  • 112
  • Utgitt:
  • 12. april 2016
  • Dimensjoner:
  • 145x13x213 mm.
  • Vekt:
  • 227 g.
  • BLACK NOVEMBER
Leveringstid: Ukjent

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A profound literary debut that recounts a child's singular storySince I made you, you may imagine I set myself on fire- or better, say: you lit the funeral pyre from ten thousand days away.A young woman in Paris encounters an uncanny presence on a tour of a small museum. A study by Rodin of the dancer Little Hanako-titled Head of Sorrow-triggers in the young woman recognition of her mother, a mother erased from her life since childhood. Thus begins Eleanor Chai's Standing Water, one of the most remarkable first books of poetry in recent years. It is a journey into the past as well as the present-into the narrative hidden from the poet since birth, as well as the strategies that she has adopted to survive. It is a journey about how we learn to cope with, to perceive and describe, the world. It is a story about savage privilege and deprivation. Haunting the whole is the figure of the real Little Hanako-Rodin's model, a Japanese artist displaced in Europe, the medium through which other artists dream and discover the world.

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