Correspondences - A poem and portraits (Hardcover)

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).

General

Imprint:	Alfred A Knopf
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2013
First published:	December 2013
Authors:	Anne Michaels
Illustrators:	Bernice Eisenstein
Dimensions:	238 x 161 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards
Pages:	128
ISBN-13:	978-0-307-96249-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General Books > Promotion > R49 Book Sale
LSN:	0-307-96249-0
Barcode:	9780307962492

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