The Crying Book - Couverture rigide

Christle, Heather

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1472154703 ISBN 13 : 9781472154705

Editeur : Corsair, 2020

Synopsis

Why do we cry? How do we cry? And what does it mean? A scientific, cultural, artistic examination by a young poet on the cusp of motherhood.

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À propos de l?auteur

Heather Christle is the author of the poetry collections The Difficult Farm; The Trees The Trees, which won the Believer Poetry Award; What Is Amazing; and Heliopause. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, London Review of Books, Poetry and many other journals. She teaches creative writing at Emory University in Atlanta. The Crying Book is her first book of non-fiction.

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Praise for The Crying Book

'Heather Christle makes a poignant and piercing examination of the phenomenon of tears . . . A deeply felt, and genuinely touching, book' Esmé Weijun Wang, author of The Collected Schizophrenias

'This is a book about crying, yes, but secretly it's a book about everything: pain, sleep, joy, despair, birth, art, exile, atrocity, language, weather, fish. Christle's genius - a word I've never before written to describe a living author - is her ability to see the miraculous and strange lines connecting everything to everything . . . The Crying Book is a rigorous and urgent work, but it reads like an intimate gift' Kaveh Akbar, author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf

'Spellbinding and propulsive - the map of a luminous mind in conversation with books, songs, friends, scientific theories, literary histories, her own jagged joy and despair. Heather Christle is a visionary writer' Leni Zumas, author of Red Clocks

'This is a wonderful and profound look at the act of crying - something human and yet hidden, common and yet mysterious. I found myself reading with a thirst for the tears Heather Christle collects here - instances within literature, film, histor and the author's own life all add up to a greater understanding of what makes us human' Chelsea Hodson, author of Tonight I'm Someone Else

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A DAZZLING MEDITATION ON TEARS

In this symphonic work of non-fiction, Heather Christle explores the most human of behaviours: crying. What are tears made of? Why do people cry? And why is this common, crucial act so rarely discussed? Christle unpacks the biological reasons for tears and investigates the influence of crying on art, politics, feminism, race and culture, all while opening up the intimate story of her own tears - from the suicide of her close friend to her family's history of depression, to her pregnancies, both planned and unplanned.

In these pages, we meet a feminist artist who designs a gun that shoots frozen tears. A moth that takes sustenance from feeding on the tears shed by other animals. And beautifully impractical devices for dealing with grief such as the 'lachrymatory', an ancient receptacle into which it was hoped 'a mourner could let fall her hot tears'. While Christle enchants us with poetic snippets on these subjects, a powerful investigation begins to accrue, examining how the history of tears is tied up with racist violence, with the stigma of mental illness, and with the ways in which glib contemporary images of motherhood fail to reckon with how rich and complicated is actually is.

Brilliant, witty and achingly honest, Christle's book creates a mosaic of science, history, culture and personal experience to find new ways of understanding life and loss. The Crying Book is a deeply intimate tribute to the fascinating strangeness of tears - and the unexpected resilience of joy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Corsair
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1472154703
• ISBN 13: 9781472154705
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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