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Piece by Piece: Selected Prose
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ISBN13: 9781589881556
Publisher: Paul Dry Books
Published: Jun 15 2021
Pages: 221
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
From a Corfu classroom to an Accra art gallery to a spa in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, this collection of prose by poet Rachel Hadas ranges through space. It reaches back in time as Hadas recalls a 1950's New York City childhood saturated with books and long-departed parents, both of whom were teachers and deeply scholarly in different ways. In Piece by Piece, Hadas―who has read and written and taught and lived a life surrounded by readers, writers, and teachers―sifts through the texts and experiences of her bookish life to pass on her findings to new readers.
Writing a book review, she says in the foreword, is only one way, and rarely the most interesting way, to engage with what one has read. I'm more interested in what happens to that book as time passes--the obliterations and transformations of memory. What and how do I recall what I've read, sometimes many years before? How, at different times in my life, did books help me? Rich with a variety of connections in every essay or review, Piece by Piece is about books and about paying attention. It's about living.
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