Zither & Autobiography is comprised of two parts: the author's
autobiography and a book-length poem entitled "Zither." Both parts
of the book are concerned with facts and their undoing. In
Autobiography, Scalapino explores her shifting memories of
childhood--especially of years spent in Asia--experimenting with
the memoir form to explore how a view of one's own life develops,
how "fixed memories move as illusion."
Zither opens with a unique narrative that the author describes as
"samurai film as Classic Comic of Shakespeare's King Lear (without
using any of Shakespeare's language, characters or plot)." Creating
a complex spatial soundscape, the poem works formally to allow
continual change of one's conceptions while reading. The
juxtaposition of the two parts and the connection between them is
"the anarchist moment...disjunction itself," a key concept in much
of Scalapino's work. This vivid book reveals in every
thought-sparking section just why Scalapino has been hailed by
Library Journal as "one of the most unique and powerful writers at
the forefront of American literature."
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