{"product_id":"zither-autobiography-leslie-scalapino-9780819564771","title":"Zither \u0026 Autobiography","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA reflective, eclectic mixture of poetry and prose.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZither \u0026amp; Autobiography is comprised of two parts: the author's autobiography and a book-length poem entitled \"Zither.\" Both parts of the book are concerned with facts and their undoing. In Autobiography, Scalapino explores her shifting memories of childhood--especially of years spent in Asia--experimenting with the memoir form to explore how a view of one's own life develops, how \"fixed memories move as illusion.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZither opens with a unique narrative that the author describes as \"samurai film as Classic Comic of Shakespeare's King Lear (without using any of Shakespeare's language, characters or plot).\" Creating a complex spatial soundscape, the poem works formally to allow continual change of one's conceptions while reading. The juxtaposition of the two parts and the connection between them is \"the anarchist moment...disjunction itself,\" a key concept in much of Scalapino's work. This vivid book reveals in every thought-sparking section just why Scalapino has been hailed by Library Journal as \"one of the most unique and powerful writers at the forefront of American literature.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leslie Scalapino\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081956477X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780819564771\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wesleyan University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.38h x 6.42w x 0.38d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2003 pg. 94\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/21\/2003 pg. 189","brand":"Leslie Scalapino","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926498574591,"sku":"9780819564771","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_289310e4-d8bb-4ee9-aa03-e291793dfbce.jpg?v=1681083411","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/zither-autobiography-leslie-scalapino-9780819564771","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}