{"product_id":"pathemata-or-the-story-of-my-mouth-9798891060388","title":"Pathemata, Or, the Story of My Mouth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e***Longlisted for the 2025 PEN\/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay***\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth\u003c\/i\u003e is an experiment in interiority written in the pandemic studio. Something of a companion piece to 2009's \u003ci\u003eBluets\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePathemata \u003c\/i\u003emerges a pain diary chronicling a decade of jaw pain with dreams and dailies, eventually blurring the lines between embodied, unconscious, and everyday life.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn scrupulously distilled prose, \u003ci\u003ePathemata\u003c\/i\u003e offers a tragicomic portrait of a particularly unnerving and isolating moment in recent history, as well as an abiding account of how it feels to inhabit a mortal body in struggle to connect with others. Formally inspired by Hervé Guibert's\u003ci\u003eThe Mausoleum of Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e, and conceptually guided by Gilles Deleuze's notion of artist as symptomologist, \u003ci\u003ePathemata\u003c\/i\u003eis yet another urgent innovation from Maggie Nelson in the art of life-writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaggie Nelson\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of twelve books of poetry and prose, many of which have become cult classics defying categorization. She first published \u003ci\u003eBluets \u003c\/i\u003ewith Wave Books in 2009 - in 2015, the book was named by \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e one of the top 10 best books of the past 20 years; in 2024, it was adapted into an acclaimed play staged at the Royal Court Theater of London. Her other nonfiction titles include \u003ci\u003eLike Love: Essays and Conversations\u003c\/i\u003e (2024), \u003ci\u003eOn Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint\u003c\/i\u003e (2021; named a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of the Year), the National Book Critics Circle Award winner \u003ci\u003eThe Argonauts\u003c\/i\u003e (2015; named by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eone of the top 100 books of the 21st Century), \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning\u003c\/i\u003e (2011; named a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of the Year), \u003ci\u003eThe Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), and \u003ci\u003eWomen, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions\u003c\/i\u003e (2007). Her poetry titles include \u003ci\u003eSomething Bright, Then Holes\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), and \u003ci\u003eJane: A Murder\u003c\/i\u003e (2005). A 2016 MacArthur \"genius\" fellow, she currently teaches at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles. Her newest, \u003ci\u003ePathemata, or The Story of My Mouth\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in April 2025.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wave Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52160366510354,"sku":"9798891060388","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d9f0b867-378a-4246-8762-e4d3c4cdfc4b.jpg?v=1775055843","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/pathemata-or-the-story-of-my-mouth-9798891060388","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}