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03.20: Sarah Manguso
2015-02-14 01:01:37| Powells Books Events Calendar
In her dazzling new book, Ongoingness (Graywolf), Sarah Manguso confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for 25 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 important. Then Manguso became pregnant and had a child, and these two 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 and haunting account of mortality and impermanence, of how we struggle to find clarity in the chaos of time that rushes around and over and through us.
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