Correspondences: a Poem and Portraits - Anne Michaels - Books - Knopf - 9780307962492 - December 3, 2013
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Correspondences: a Poem and Portraits First edition

Anne Michaels

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Correspondences: a Poem and Portraits First edition

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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