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rob mclennan - On Beauty, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

On Beauty

stories

Av rob mclennan

Del i serien Robert Kroetsch Series

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On Beauty is a provocative collection of moments, confessions, overheard conversations, and memories, both fleeting and crystalized, revolving around the small chasms and large craters of everyday life. Situated at the crossroads of prose and poetry, these 33 vignettes explore the rhythm, textures, and micro-moments of lives in motion. Composed with a poet’s eye for detail and ear for rhythm, rob mclennan’s brief stories play with form and language, capturing the act of record-keeping while in the process of living those records, creating a Polaroid-like effect. Throughout the collection, the worlds of literature and art infuse into intimate fragments of the everyday. A welcome chronicle of human connection and belonging, On Beauty will leave readers grappling with questions of how stories are produced and passed through generations.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-08-22
  • Mått: 133 x 229 x 10 mm
  • Vikt: 600 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Robert Kroetsch Series
  • Antal sidor: 204
  • Förlag: University of Alberta Press
  • ISBN: 9781772127690
  • Utmärkelser: Winner of AUPresses Book, Jacket, & Journal Show - Jackets and Covers 2025 (United States)
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The author of more than thirty books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, publisher and literary impresario rob mclennan’s most recent titles include World’s End and essays in the face of uncertainties. He lives in Ottawa.

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“What is the responsibility of ‘building a person’? rob mclennan's On Beauty accumulates searing questions, and delves into the deep memory of consciousness 'held in amber.' How might we wake from loss and conduct internal excavations? He writes: ‘The tricky part of our travel was in attempting to speak solo to my younger self. . . I woke before the narrative completed.’ Woven with threads of ancestral memoir, this collage of stories collects the habits of those attempting to swerve from conventions of elegy—and what comes 'after.' We proceed through glowing fragments: ‘paper dolls and Red Rose figurines. . . placed on every surface. Set out to safeguard.’ A deeply moving portrait, from embryonic scrapbooks and quotidian diaries to the many births which compose a life. A deft encounter with what happens when—'We won’t allow our dead to disappear.’” Laynie Browne, Intaglio Daughters

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