Double Negative - Couverture souple

Putnam, Claudia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1952897238 ISBN 13 : 9781952897238

Editeur : Split/Lip Press, 2022

Synopsis

Winner of the 2021 Nonfiction/Hybrid Chapbook Contest

Double Negative, Claudia Putnam's debut nonfiction chapbook, examines the grammatical logic that two negatives make a positive, that an impossibility can ever be resolved by word rearrangement or by rearrangements of the physical body. The impossibility in Double Negative is the death of an infant, the author’s son Jacob, from an immutable heart defect that medicine, nonetheless, asserts there are options to treat. When is the right time to die, especially if someone is just beginning life? Three decades after her decision regarding Jacob’s fate, Putnam employs poetry, physics, calculus, scientific research into a hallucinogen, and the structure of the English language to interrogate her experience with grief. She asks whether there might be a difference between not dying and living, exploring personhood, and wondering at how the living do, somehow, manage to orbit so close to the event horizon of a child’s death.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Split/Lip Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1952897238
• ISBN 13: 9781952897238
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 62
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• Personne responsable: non disponible