| Correspondences: A Poem and Portraits Contributor(s): Michaels, Anne (Author), Eisenstein, Bernice (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0307962490 ISBN-13: 9780307962492 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $31.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Canadian - Poetry | Women Authors - Art | Subjects & Themes - Portraits |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2013001299 |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.41" W x 9.34" (1.22 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A rare and beautifully produced accordion book by renowned novelist and poet Anne Michaels and acclaimed artist and writer Bernice Eisenstein that will cause a stir for both its form and its content. Anne Michaels's resonant book-length poem--which unfolds on one side of the pages of this accordion book--ranges from the universal to the intimate, as she writes of historical figures for whom language was the closest thing to salvation; on the other side, we have Bernice Eisenstein's luminous portraits of and quotes from such twentieth-century writers and thinkers as Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs, W. G. Sebald, Anna Akhmatova, Primo Levi, and Albert Einstein. The poetry and portraits join together in a dialogue that can be read in any direction and any order, in a format that perfectly reflects the thematic interconnectedness of this collaboration: an alphabet of spirits and spirit; an elegy of remembrance (Eisenstein); just as a conversation becomes the third side of the page . . . the moment one life becomes another (Michaels). |