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Correspondences: a Poem and Portraits First edition
Anne Michaels
Correspondences: a Poem and Portraits First edition
Anne Michaels
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 of the page . . . the moment one life becomes another" (Michaels).
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | December 3, 2013 |
ISBN13 | 9780307962492 |
Publishers | Knopf |
Pages | 128 |
Dimensions | 160 × 240 × 20 mm · 553 g |
Language | English |
Contributor | Bernice Eisenstein |
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