A fragmented, lyrical essay on memory, identity, mourning, and the
mother. Writing is how I attempt to repair myself, stitching back
former selves, sentences. When I am brave enough I am never brave
enough I unravel the tapestry of my life, my childhood. -from Book
of Mutter Composed over thirteen years, Kate Zambreno's Book of
Mutter is a tender and disquieting meditation on the ability of
writing, photography, and memory to embrace shadows while in the
throes-and dead calm-of grief. Book of Mutter is both primal and
sculpted, shaped by the author's searching, indexical impulse to
inventory family apocrypha in the wake of her mother's death. The
text spirals out into a fractured anatomy of melancholy that
includes critical reflections on the likes of Roland Barthes,
Louise Bourgeois, Henry Darger, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Peter
Handke, and others. Zambreno has modeled the book's formless form
on Bourgeois's Cells sculptures-at once channeling the volatility
of autobiography, pain, and childhood, yet hemmed by a solemn sense
of entering ritualistic or sacred space. Neither memoir, essay, nor
poetry, Book of Mutter is an uncategorizable text that draws upon a
repertoire of genres to write into and against silence. It is a
haunted text, an accumulative archive of myth and memory that seeks
its own undoing, driven by crossed desires to resurrect and
exorcise the past. Zambreno weaves a complex web of associations,
relics, and references, elevating the prosaic scrapbook into a
strange and intimate postmortem/postmodern theater.
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