One Big Self

Name: One Big Self
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ISBN: 9781556592584

ISBN-10: 1556592582

ISBN-13: 9781556592584

Edition: 2007

Authors: C. D. Wright, Deborah Luster

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"Wright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle, which she uses to evoke the haunted quality of our carnal existence."- The New Yorker Inspired by numerous visits inside Louisiana state prisons-where MacArthur Fellow C.D. Wright served as a "factotum" for a portrait photographer- One Big Self bears witness to incarcerated men and women and speaks to the psychic toll of protracted time passed in constricted space. It is a riveting mosaic of distinct voices, epistolary pieces, elements from a moralistic board game, road signage, prison data, inmate correspondence, and "counts" of things-from baby's teeth to chigger bites: …

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Publication date: 4/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.50" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English