Pathemata, or, the story of my mouth
Nelson, Maggie, 1973-2025
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This is a dreamlike portrait of a body in struggle to connect with itself and others. As the narrator contends with chronic pain, and with a pandemic raging in the background, she sets out to examine the literal and symbolic role of the mouth in the life of a writer. Merging dreams and dailies, this book recounts the narrator's tragicomic search to alleviate her suffering, a search that eventually becomes a reckoning with various forms of loss - the loss of intimacy, the loss of her father and the loss of a pivotal friend and mentor. In exacting, distilled prose, her account blurs the lines between embodied, unconscious and everyday life.
Main title:
Pathemata, or, the story of my mouth / Maggie Nelson.
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Imprint:
London : Fern Press, 2025.London : Fern Press, 2025.
Collation:
80 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9781911717454 (hbk)
Dewey class:
818.603
Language:
English
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BRN:
3033939