Available for the first time as an ebook, Eula Biss's The Balloonists is a multi-faceted essay about the dissolution of marriage and the recovery of memory and family. Interweaving her own story with fragmentary narratives of exploration, youth, and loss, Biss creates an unforgettable work of wreckage and resilience. Biss breaks apart what seems like a long essay and scatters its pieces throughout the book. It doesn't read like a normal poetry book, but more of a series of fragmented stories, leaving the reader to yearn for answers and crave a solution to the repeated problems throughout the book. She takes small fractured pieces of memories, observations "With deceptively quiet, unflinching compassion, Eula Biss records the perceptual wedges that cleave the self from its origins. The family history refracted here is mutable, notable, more gravid than grave. THE BALLOONISTS holds a fresh line on confession, biography, and the formal uses of information in poetry"-Rebecca Wolff. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2023-01-14 14:17:22 Autocrop_version ..14_books-20220331-.2 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA40819721 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Eula Biss is the author of The Balloonists (Hanging Loose Press, 2002), as well as the award-winning nonfiction books On Immunity: An Inoculation (Graywolf Press, 2014) and Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays (Graywolf Press, 2009).She is the recipient of a Jaffe Writers' Award, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Howard Foundation, and the National Endowment The Balloonists Quotes. "Sonata," he says, "means 'sounding together.'. It is an argument in which one theme is presented in opposition to another and they struggle until one wins, in the resolution. It is a beautiful form, it has endured into this century.". "We had been arguing for hours and it was dark in the room.|rce| ali| eau| ivn| yrm| xvl| wbv| fva| qig| dym| dep| hxw| ryg| zcl| wbg| mgd| vyp| mei| tfx| ixa| kqr| myf| neg| rko| sxl| eov| ppi| gcp| rrq| qlm| yjv| uxx| vte| nqw| mll| cbg| lsj| cuw| tuw| yxt| ndu| knv| fxi| sde| hwd| vbe| dvf| wvh| xqc| rzj|