A Pillow Book
Author | : Suzanne Buffam |
Publisher | : House of Anansi |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 2016-04-09 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781487000271 |
ISBN-13 | : 1487000278 |
Rating | : 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Download or read book A Pillow Book written by Suzanne Buffam and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2016-04-09 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not a narrative. Not an essay. Not a shopping list. Not a song. Not a diary. Not an etiquette manual. Not a confession. Not a prayer. Not a secret letter sent through the silent Palace hallways before dawn. Making a daybook of oblivion, A Pillow Book leads the reader on a darkly comic tour through the dim-lit valley of fitful sleep. The miscellaneous memoranda, minutiae, dreamscapes, and lists that comprise this book-length poem disclose a prismatic meditation on the price of privilege; the petty grievances of marriage, motherhood, art, and office politics; the indignities of age; and the putative properties of dreams, among other themes, set in the dead of winter in a Midwestern townhouse on the eve of the end of geohistory. Feather-light in its touch, quixotic in its turns, and resolutely deadpan in its delivery, A Pillow Book offers a twenty-first-century response to a thousand-year-old Japanese genre which resists, while slyly absorbing, all attempts to define it.