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Ongoingness : the end of a diary
- Title
- Ongoingness : the end of a diary / Sarah Manguso.
- Author
- Manguso, Sarah, 1974-
- Publication
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2015]
- ©2015
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 15-3899 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 97 pages; 20 cm
- Summary
- "In her third book that continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay, Sarah Manguso confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for twenty-five years. "I wanted to end each day with a record of everything that had ever happened," she explains. But this simple statement belies a terror that she might forget something, that she might miss something important. Maintaining that diary, now 800,000 words, had become, until recently, a kind of spiritual practice. Then Manguso became pregnant and had a child, and these two Copernican events generated an amnesia that put her into a different relationship with the need to document herself amid ongoing time. Ongoingness is a spare, meditative work that stands in stark contrast to the volubility of the diary--it is a haunting account of mortality and impermanence, of how we struggle to find clarity amid the chaos of time that rushes around and over and through us"--Publisher's website.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Essays.
- Note
- Autobiographical essay.
- Call Number
- JFD 15-3899
- ISBN
- 9781555977030
- 1555977030
- LCCN
- 2014950981
- OCLC
- 879582882
- Author
- Manguso, Sarah, 1974- author.
- Title
- Ongoingness : the end of a diary / Sarah Manguso.
- Publisher
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2015]
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFD 15-3899