Air Salt: A Trauma Memoire as a Result of the Fall

di Ian Kinney (Autore)

University of Calgary Press, 2019

Ian Kinney fell seven stories, and he survived. Kinney (un)writes his hospitalisation and recovery, using poetry as neuro-rehabilitation. A memoir written by an amnesiac, this collection stitches splintered narratives with projective verse, cutting up and reassembling found text from Get Well Soon Cards, emails between friends, excerpts from personal journals, written records of eye witnesses, the police and EMS reports, relevant Real Estate listings, nurses' charts, doctors' notes, hospital brochures, and Kinney's Neuropsychological Assessment: all increasingly recombinant, all increasingly in chorus. Kinney re-sorts the writing to etch in itself a more essential expression, Air Salt . A challenging, prototypic piece of posttraumatic writing, Air Salt accommodates narrative discord and juxtaposes heterogenous voices. It reflects the lived experience of trauma, continually (re)arranging distorted phrases, interrogating and (re)forming itself, and (re)fusing to compromise. Air Salt reintegrates a shattered body of local narratives and presses on.

• Autore: Ian Kinney
• Editore: University of Calgary Press
• Anno: 2019
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 128 p.
• Dimensioni: 230 x 155 mm
• Peso: 270 gr.
• EAN: 9781773851129

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