{"product_id":"book-of-mutter-9781584351962","title":"Book of Mutter","description":"\u003cb\u003eA fragmented, lyrical essay on memory, identity, mourning, and the mother.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriting is how I attempt to repair myself, stitching back former selves, sentences. When I am brave enough I am never brave enough I unravel the tapestry of my life, my childhood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003efrom\u003ci\u003e Book of Mutter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComposed over thirteen years, Kate Zambreno's \u003ci\u003eBook of Mutter\u003c\/i\u003e is a tender and disquieting meditation on the ability of writing, photography, and memory to embrace shadows while in the throes--and dead calm--of grief. \u003ci\u003eBook of Mutter\u003c\/i\u003e is both primal and sculpted, shaped by the author's searching, indexical impulse to inventory family apocrypha in the wake of her mother's death. The text spirals out into a fractured anatomy of melancholy that includes critical reflections on the likes of Roland Barthes, Louise Bourgeois, Henry Darger, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Peter Handke, and others. Zambreno has modeled the book's formless form on Bourgeois's Cells sculptures--at once channeling the volatility of autobiography, pain, and childhood, yet hemmed by a solemn sense of entering ritualistic or sacred space.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeither memoir, essay, nor poetry, \u003ci\u003eBook of Mutter\u003c\/i\u003e is an uncategorizable text that draws upon a repertoire of genres to write into and against silence. It is a haunted text, an accumulative archive of myth and memory that seeks its own undoing, driven by crossed desires to resurrect and exorcise the past. Zambreno weaves a complex web of associations, relics, and references, elevating the prosaic scrapbook into a strange and intimate postmortem\/postmodern theater.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKate Zambreno is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eGreen Girl \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eO Fallen Angel\u003c\/i\u003e as well as the nonfiction \u003ci\u003eHeroines\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBook of Mutter\u003c\/i\u003e (both published by Semiotexte(e)).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Semiotext(e)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50634891034898,"sku":"9781584351962","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f695d48b-1974-4099-9b62-f96ef5401ea4.jpg?v=1732824202","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/book-of-mutter-9781584351962","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}