Figure it out : essays
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New York : Soft Skull, 2020.
ISBN
9781593765958, 1593765959
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Published
New York : Soft Skull, 2020.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9781593765958, 1593765959
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Description
""Toward what goal do I aspire, ever, but collision? Always accident, concussion, bodies butting together . . . By collision I also mean metaphor and metonymy: operations of slide and slip and transfuse." In his new nonfiction collection, poet, artist, critic, novelist, and performer Wayne Koestenbaum enacts twenty-six ecstatic collisions between his mind and the world. A subway passenger's leather bracelet prompts musings on the German word for stranger; Montaigne leads to the memory of a fourth-grade friend's stinky feet. Koestenbaum dreams about a hand job from John Ashbery, swims next to Nicole Kidman, reclaims Robert Rauschenberg's squeegee, and apotheosizes Marguerite Duras as a destroyer of sentences. He directly proposes assignments to readers: "Buy a one-dollar cactus, and start anthropomorphizing it. Call it Sabrina." "Describe an ungenerous or unkind act you have committed." "Find in every orgasm an encyclopedic richness . . . Reimagine doing the laundry as having an orgasm, and reinterpret orgasm as not a tiny experience, temporally limited, occurring in a single human body, but as an experience that somehow touches on all of human history." Figure It Out is both a guidebook for, and the embodiment of, the practices of pleasure, attentiveness, art, and play"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Koestenbaum, W. (2020). Figure it out: essays (First Soft Skull edition.). Soft Skull.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Koestenbaum, Wayne. 2020. Figure It Out: Essays. Soft Skull.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Koestenbaum, Wayne. Figure It Out: Essays Soft Skull, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Koestenbaum, Wayne. Figure It Out: Essays First Soft Skull edition., Soft Skull, 2020.
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