{"product_id":"9781911717454","title":"Maggie Nelson - Pathemata Or, the Story of My Mouth","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten by Maggie Nelson. Themes include Biography \u0026amp; Autobiography, Literary Figures, Personal Memoirs, Family \u0026amp; Relationships, Death, Grief, Bereavement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt's not the dream that matters, it's the telling of the dream - the words you choose, the risks you take in externalising your mind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This is a dreamlike portrait of a body in struggle to connect with itself and others. As the narrator contends with chronic pain, and with a pandemic raging in the background, she sets out to examine the literal and symbolic role of the mouth in the life of a writer.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Merging dreams and dailies, \u003ci\u003ePathemata\u003c\/i\u003e recounts the narrator's tragicomic search to alleviate her suffering, a search that eventually becomes a reckoning with various forms of loss - the loss of intimacy, the loss of her father and the loss of a pivotal friend and mentor. In exacting, distilled prose, her account blurs the lines between embodied, unconscious and everyday life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e With characteristic precision, humour and compassion, Nelson explores the limits of language to describe experience, while also offering a portrait of an unnerving and isolating time in our shared history. A stunning, original experiment in interiority by the adored author of \u003ci\u003eBluets\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Argonauts\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePathemata\u003c\/i\u003e is a personal and poetic reckoning with pain and loss, both physical and emotional, as well as an uncanny meditation on love, affliction and resilience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll books at Vastela are pre-owned. Condition varies from good to near-new. No book is sold in unacceptable condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vastela Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58030704427382,"sku":null,"price":8.9,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/7144\/1981\/files\/9781911717454.jpg?v=1780667210","url":"https:\/\/www.vastelabooks.com\/products\/9781911717454","provider":"Vastela Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}