{"product_id":"again-again-and-again-mathias-b-freese-9781627879408","title":"Again. Again and Again.: Awakening into Awareness - Essays and Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eHaving once been a psychotherapist who's never hesitated to turn the therapeutical gun barrel toward himself, Mathias B. Freese ramps up his radical reflexivity in this latest work, from confessional first-person narration to third-person \"stories\" starring \"characters\" named Matt. (This genre could be called meta-Matt.) \"I write to know perhaps something about who I am,\" Freese writes. \"I write to arrive at some awareness, however dim, about self or other, for when I have that fleeting moment of awareness, I feel at one -- true.\" Truly, \u003cem\u003eAgain. Again and Again.\u003c\/em\u003e is a song of himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRocker Billy Idol proves to be an unlikely but apt echoer here: \"When there's nothing to lose and there's nothing to prove, well, I'm dancing with myself.\" As a one-man show, Freese puts the \"dance\" in \"abundance,\" stressing an author's singularity, the innerness of writing, the sharing -- rather than the proselytizing -- purpose of artistic expression. In other words, as Freese says, \"a book is one person's awareness as he or she sees it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore than a few times, Freese had implied that \u003cem\u003eAgain. Again and Again.\u003c\/em\u003e would probably be his swan song, his \"final stirrings,\" his ultimate testament. How laughable, considering both his prolificacy and \"urge and urge and urge\" (as Whitman would gush). Sure enough, the author is no longer so sure that he's expressed enough, and it seems that yet another stirring idea spurs him to create again. Again and...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mathias B. Freese\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1627879404\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781627879408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wheatmark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 198\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.45d","brand":"Mathias B. Freese","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44054359933183,"sku":"9781627879408","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_16e2a2fd-b35a-482e-bb36-903d023db781.jpg?v=1685029509","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/again-again-and-again-mathias-b-freese-9781627879408","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}