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How do you read a girls bare feet, a fallen fuchsia blossom, or the act of throwing a gun into a reservoirs deep water? In this book, critically acclaimed essayist Chris Arthur continues his experiments with this fascinating and flexible literary genre, using it to fashion fourteen exquisitely crafted readings whose lyricism suggests poetry as much as prose. Sometimes reading is meant literally and books are the point of focus; sometimes its meant metaphorically with the objects and events around us being read. But whether hes considering child prostitution in Paris, Flann OBriens great comic novel At Swim-Two-Birds, a whales tooth, a bayonet, or the poems of Seamus Heaney, common to all of Chris Arthurs readings is a search for the meanings that lie behind the superficialities of ordinary discourse. Winner of the Monroe K Spears Essay Prize, the Akegarasu Haya International Essay Prize and several other awards, this is Arthurs sixth essay collection. His previous books include Words of the Grey Wind, On the Shoreline of Knowledge and Irish Elegies. Visit (http://www.chrisarthur.org) www.chrisarthur.org to find out more about the author and his writing. "Few writers today can riva

Author

Chris Arthur

Publisher

Mobile, Alabama: Negative Capability Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780998677712