A meditation on art's longevity and the brevity of human life from
the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of Frail-Craft and
Inmost.Jessica Fisher brings "the faraway close," through ruthless
yet tender interrogations of possibility and permanence. Set
against the backdrop of the fallen empire of Rome, Daywork takes
its title from the giornata--the name in fresco painting for the
section of wet plaster that can be painted in a single day, where
each "day" is marked by the hidden seams in a finished painting.In
a voice that is as poised as it is unmistakably urgent, Fisher aims
to uncover what adheres against the fabric of history, and what
becomes effaced over time. Her search leads her to discover signs
of ruin of a different kind, and her poems begin to coalesce around
a single perilous realization: that time is not merely an agent of
erasure. Time is also a tether, rendering violence, beauty, grief,
and art separate merely by a matter of days. "So you see once
again," she writes, "violence is to beauty / as the warp to the
weft / always somewhere beneath."Like the fresco itself, Daywork is
committed to a time- and site-specific art, and to the daily work
of creation. At once an elegiac meditation and a brave unearthing,
this book expertly discerns the monumentalizing portrayals of
history and its violences, while boldly illuminating other crucial
accounts of everyday existence.
General
Imprint: |
Milkweed Editions
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
March 2024 |
Authors: |
Jessica Fisher
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Dimensions: |
215 x 139mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
88 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-63955-072-2 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-63955-072-0 |
Barcode: |
9781639550722 |
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