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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Wesleyan Univ Pr
Publication date
May 28, 2003
Pages
150
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780819564771
ISBN-10
081956477X
Dimensions
0.25 by 5.60 by 8.60 in.
Weight
0.35 lbs.
Original list price
$15.95
Other format details
university press
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Zither & Autobiography is comprised of two parts: the authorâs autobiography and a book-length poem entitled "Zither." Both parts of the book are concerned with facts and their undoing. In Autobiography, Scalapino explores her shifting memories of childhoodâespecially of years spent in Asiaâexperimenting with the memoir form to explore how a view of oneâs own life develops, how "fixed memories move as illusion."
Zither opens with a unique narrative that the author describes as "samurai film as Classic Comic of Shakespeareâs King Lear (without using any of Shakespeareâs language, characters or plot)." Creating a complex spatial soundscape, the poem works formally to allow continual change of oneâs conceptions while reading. The juxtaposition of the two parts and the connection between them is "the anarchist moment...disjunction itself," a key concept in much of Scalapinoâs work. This vivid book reveals in every thought-sparking section just why Scalapino has been hailed by Library Journal as "one of the most unique and powerful writers at the forefront of American literature."
Zither opens with a unique narrative that the author describes as "samurai film as Classic Comic of Shakespeareâs King Lear (without using any of Shakespeareâs language, characters or plot)." Creating a complex spatial soundscape, the poem works formally to allow continual change of oneâs conceptions while reading. The juxtaposition of the two parts and the connection between them is "the anarchist moment...disjunction itself," a key concept in much of Scalapinoâs work. This vivid book reveals in every thought-sparking section just why Scalapino has been hailed by Library Journal as "one of the most unique and powerful writers at the forefront of American literature."
Editions
Hardcover
from Wesleyan Univ Pr (April 1, 2003)
9780819564764 | details & prices | 150 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 0.50 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $30.00
About: Zither & Autobiography is comprised of two parts: the author's autobiography and a book-length poem entitled "Zither.
About: Zither & Autobiography is comprised of two parts: the author's autobiography and a book-length poem entitled "Zither.
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
from Wesleyan Univ Pr (May 28, 2003)
9780819564771 | details & prices | 150 pages | 5.60 × 8.60 × 0.25 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $15.95
About: Zither & Autobiography is comprised of two parts: the authorâs autobiography and a book-length poem entitled "Zither.
About: Zither & Autobiography is comprised of two parts: the authorâs autobiography and a book-length poem entitled "Zither.
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