The Book of Fools: An Essay in Memoir and Verse (Limited First Edition)
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"a masterwork..." —David Keplinger
"[a] ravishing text..." —Donald Revell
"brilliantly creates 'a composite canvas' to capture what it means to make art in our precarious times..." —Craig Santos Perez
At once poem, essay, memoir fragment, and art object, The Book of Fools is a sweeping elegy for our earth—and our plastic-choked ocean—and it is visually, conceptually, and thematically unlike perhaps any book before it. The Book of Fools invents new formal structures to marry global, ecological themes of loss—focused around the Great Pacific Garbage Patch—to personal, confessional ones, centered around a mother's early death to cancer. By utilizing innovative lyric techniques within the larger arc of an accessible narrative, the book endeavors to create a contemporary (anti-)epic for a crisis almost beyond the scale of imagination.
"a masterwork..." —David Keplinger
"[a] ravishing text..." —Donald Revell
"brilliantly creates 'a composite canvas' to capture what it means to make art in our precarious times..." —Craig Santos Perez
At once poem, essay, memoir fragment, and art object, The Book of Fools is a sweeping elegy for our earth—and our plastic-choked ocean—and it is visually, conceptually, and thematically unlike perhaps any book before it. The Book of Fools invents new formal structures to marry global, ecological themes of loss—focused around the Great Pacific Garbage Patch—to personal, confessional ones, centered around a mother's early death to cancer. By utilizing innovative lyric techniques within the larger arc of an accessible narrative, the book endeavors to create a contemporary (anti-)epic for a crisis almost beyond the scale of imagination.
