One Big Self: An Investigation - Brossura

Wright, C. D.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1556592582 ISBN 13: 9781556592584

Casa editrice: Copper Canyon Pr, 2007

Riassunto

Inspired by visits inside Louisiana state prisons - where MacArthur Fellow C. D. Wright accompanied portrait photographer Deborah Luster - One Big Self bears witness to incarcerated men and women and speaks to the corrosive toll of protracted confinement. It is a mixture of distinct voices, epistles, fragments from an antique and aggressively pious board game, road signage, prison data, inmate correspondence, and inventories of things - from baby teeth to chigger bites. As Wright proposes in her introduction: "Not to idealize, not to judge, not to exonerate, not to aestheticize immeasurable levels of pain. Not to demonize, not anathematize. What I wanted was to unequivocally lay out the real feel of hard time."

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L'autore:

C.D. Wright, a Professor of English at Brown University, is the author of eleven books of poetry, as well as several collaborative works with photographer Deborah Luster, most recently One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana. She has earned fellowships from the MacArthur and Guggenheim foundations, and is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Award. She lives in Rhode Island.

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• Editore: Copper Canyon Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1556592582
• ISBN 13: 9781556592584
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 80