Earth Room
Rachel Mannheimer
(Author)
Description
Selected by Nobel Laureate Louise Glück as Winner of the inaugural Bergman Prize, Rachel Mannheimer's debut, Earth Room, is a dazzling book-length narrative poem that explores with tenderness how art and love intersect to make one's life. Transporting the reader across decades and from the Moon to Mars by way of Alaska, Berlin, and the Hudson Valley, Earth Room considers a lineage of sculpture, performance, and land art--from Robert Smithson to Pina Bausch--with observations shaped by gender and environment, history and portents of apocalypse. With an urgent, direct, and unmistakably powerful voice, Mannheimer tests the line between nature and culture, ordinary life and performance. A work of sly wit and bracing sincerity, Earth Room is an original, unsparing book that Louise Glück calls "a lesson in how to make something of where we find ourselves."Product Details
Price
$18.99
$17.66
Publisher
Changes Pub.
Publish Date
April 05, 2022
Pages
100
Dimensions
4.8 X 6.9 X 0.5 inches | 0.25 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781955125109
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About the Author
RACHEL MANNHEIMER was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska, and lives in New Haven, Connecticut, where she works as a literary scout and as a senior editor for The Yale Review. This is her first book.
Reviews
The stupendous Earth Room makes language a place. It's roomy, it's personal, it's every day.--Terrence Hayes
Earth Room is a wholly singular and lambent collection, made perfectly strange.--Jenny Xie
... Earth Room is a wholly original confessional-ekphrastic undertaking that brings artifice and reality so close, they speak with a single crystalline voice--Mannheimer's. This is an extraordinary book.--Robyn Schiff
Earth Room is a wholly singular and lambent collection, made perfectly strange.--Jenny Xie
... Earth Room is a wholly original confessional-ekphrastic undertaking that brings artifice and reality so close, they speak with a single crystalline voice--Mannheimer's. This is an extraordinary book.--Robyn Schiff