A Pillow Book

A Pillow Book
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Publisher : House of Anansi
Total Pages : 106
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ISBN-10 : 9781487000271
ISBN-13 : 1487000278
Rating : 4/5 (278 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Pillow Book by : Suzanne Buffam

Download or read book A Pillow Book written by Suzanne Buffam and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2016-04-09 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not a narrative. Not an essay. Not a shopping list. Not a song. Not a diary. Not an etiquette manual. Not a confession. Not a prayer. Not a secret letter sent through the silent Palace hallways before dawn. Making a daybook of oblivion, A Pillow Book leads the reader on a darkly comic tour through the dim-lit valley of fitful sleep. The miscellaneous memoranda, minutiae, dreamscapes, and lists that comprise this book-length poem disclose a prismatic meditation on the price of privilege; the petty grievances of marriage, motherhood, art, and office politics; the indignities of age; and the putative properties of dreams, among other themes, set in the dead of winter in a Midwestern townhouse on the eve of the end of geohistory. Feather-light in its touch, quixotic in its turns, and resolutely deadpan in its delivery, A Pillow Book offers a twenty-first-century response to a thousand-year-old Japanese genre which resists, while slyly absorbing, all attempts to define it.


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