Zither & Autobiography

Leslie Scalapino

Light blue book cover interrupted by a black and white image of abstract swirls having written “Zither“ in italics vertically on it, “& Autobiography“ written above it in white italics and the authors name leslie scalapino written in black below.
Two interrupted columns of text in black letters on white background.
Two columns of text in black letters spread over a white page with a photography of a girl on the left upper side entitled “Figure 5.“ as well as a footnote block on the lower half third of the right page.
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Publisher:
Wesleyan University Press

Zither & Autobiography is comprised of two parts: the author's autobiography and a book-length poem entitled "Zither." Both parts of the book are concerned with facts and their undoing. In Autobiography, Scalapino explores her shifting memories of childhood―especially of years spent in Asia―experimenting with the memoir form to explore how a view of one's own life develops, how "fixed memories move as illusion."

Zither opens with a unique narrative that the author describes as "samurai film as Classic Comic of Shakespeare's King Lear (without using any of Shakespeare's language, characters or plot)." Creating a complex spatial soundscape, the poem works formally to allow continual change of one's conceptions while reading. The juxtaposition of the two parts and the connection between them is "the anarchist moment...disjunction itself," a key concept in much of Scalapino's work. This vivid book reveals in every thought-sparking section just why Scalapino has been hailed by Library Journal as "one of the most unique and powerful writers at the forefront of American literature."

Year
2003
Length
150 pages
Cover
Softback
Binding
Perfect binding
Dimensions
14 x 22 cm.

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