9781400043491 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 6, 2005, cover price $24.95 |
About this edition: A compilation of literary writings explores the nature and mechanics of the human acts of undoing of self and of form, as revealed in the lives of Sappho, Simone Weil, and Virginia Woolf.
9781400078905 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, October 10, 2006), cover price $15.95 |
About this edition: A remarkable compilation of literary writings by the critically acclaimed author of Autobiography of Red features an array of original poetry, essays, a screenplay, and a libretto that explores the nature and mechanics of the human act of decreation as revealed in the lives of Sappho, Marguerite Porete, Simone Weil, Virginia Woolf, and her own relationship with her mother.