Bibliograph

Ongoingness, the end of a diary, Sarah Manguso

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Ongoingness, the end of a diary, Sarah Manguso

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Ongoingness

Oclc number

879582882

Responsibility statement

Sarah Manguso

Sub title

the end of a diary

Summary

"In her third book that continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay, Sarah Manguso confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for twenty-five years. "I wanted to end each day with a record of everything that had ever happened, " she explains. But this simple statement belies a terror that she might forget something, that she might miss something important. Maintaining that diary, now 800,000 words, had become, until recently, a kind of spiritual practice. Then Manguso became pregnant and had a child, and these two Copernican events generated an amnesia that put her into a different relationship with the need to document herself amid ongoing time. Ongoingness is a spare, meditative work that stands in stark contrast to the volubility of the diary--it is a haunting account of mortality and impermanence, of how we struggle to find clarity amid the chaos of time that rushes around and over and through us"--Publisher's website

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