Ongoingness: The End of a Diary - Sarah Manguso

Descriere Ongoingness: The End of a Diary - Sarah Manguso

\n \n Manguso] has written the memoir we didn't realize we needed. --The New Yorker\n \nIn Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay. In it, she confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for twenty-five years. I wanted to end each day with a record of everything that had ever happened, she explains. But this simple statement belies a terror that she might forget something, that she might miss something important. Maintaining that diary, now eight hundred thousand words, had become, until recently, a kind of spiritual practice.\n \nThen Manguso became pregnant and had a child, and these two Copernican events generated an amnesia that put her into a different relationship with the need to document herself amid ongoing time.\n \nOngoingness is a spare, meditative work that stands in stark contrast to the volubility of the diary--it is a haunting account of mortality and impermanence, of how we struggle to find clarity in the chaos of time that rushes around and over and through us.\n \nBold, elegant, and honest . . . Ongoingness reads variously as an addict's testimony, a confession, a celebration, an elegy. --The Paris Review\n \nManguso captures the central challenge of memory, of attentiveness to life . . . A spectacularly and unsummarizably rewarding read. --Maria Popova, Brain Pickings\n

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GRAYWOLF PRESS

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