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Correspondences


A collection of Poetry


Subgenres:

  • Collaborative,
  • Art & Photography,
  • Experimental
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Accordion books that blur the line between poetry and visual art
  • Portraits and quotes from twentieth-century writers and thinkers
  • Poems exploring language as salvation and memory as dialogue
Publisher Description

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"; "just as a conversation becomes the third side of the page . . . the moment one life becomes another."

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