Limited Engagement: A Way of Living - Couverture rigide

Sha, Jacquelyn

Couverture rigide

ISBN 13 : 9798987785232

Editeur : Choeofpleirn Press, 2023

Synopsis

Life is like a theater run: a limited engagement. And her approach to life, as author Jacquelyn Shah renders it in her memoir-essay collection, is grounded in limited engagement with the world and its people. Not a tell-all, how-to, or straightforward chronological narrative, and not a work from the woe-is-me angle, Limited Engagement is a creative exploration of how she came to be rooted in living and writing after a failed suicide attempt at age twenty, incited by a conviction that existence is absurd. Dubbing it a "gallimaufry" (jumble or medley of things), Shah has developed a work whose innards consist of sundry gobbets: narrative; quotes; excerpts of letters; poems; critiques and grievances; historical tidbits; lists; metaphor and language play. She subscribes to what David Shields said in his Reality Hunger: A Manifesto: "(Ambitious) memoir isn't fundamentally a chronicle of experience; rather, memoir is the story of consciousness contending with experience."

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jacquelyn Shah, iconoclast, pacifist holds: A.B. English-Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, Rutgers U; M.A. English, Drew U; M.F.A. and Ph.D.-English literature/creative writing-poetry, U of Houston.She has received grants from the University of Houston, Houston Arts Alliance, and the Puffin Foundation. Her publications include a chapbook, small fry; a full-length book, What to Do with Red; and poems in Rhino, Gyroscope Review, The Texas Review, Vine Leaves (Australia), The Lake (UK), Plath Profiles, Rushing Thru the Dark, Autumn 2022, The Best of Choeofpleirn Press, Winter 2022, et al. She was Literal Latté's 2018 Food Verse Contest winner.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Choeofpleirn Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798987785232
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 172
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