Earth Room

Rachel Mannheimer

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Selected by Nobel Laureate Louise Glück as Winner of the inaugural Bergman Prize, Rachel Mannheimer's debut, Earth Room, is a dazzling book-length narrative poem that explores with tenderness how art and love intersect to make one's life. Transporting the reader across decades and from the Moon to Mars by way of Alaska, Berlin, and the Hudson Valley, Earth Room considers a lineage of sculpture, performance, and land art--from Robert Smithson to Pina Bausch--with observations shaped by gender and environment, history and portents of apocalypse. With an urgent, direct, and unmistakably powerful voice, Mannheimer tests the line between nature and culture, ordinary life and performance. A work of sly wit and bracing sincerity, Earth Room is an original, unsparing book that Louise Glück calls "a lesson in how to make something of where we find ourselves."

Book Details

Publisher: Changes Pub.
Publish Date: Apr 5th, 2022
Pages: 100
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 6.90in - 4.80in - 0.50in - 0.25lb
EAN: 9781955125109
Categories: • American - General• Women Authors• Subjects & Themes - Nature

About the Author

Mannheimer, Rachel: - RACHEL MANNHEIMER was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska, and lives in New Haven, Connecticut, where she works as a literary scout and as a senior editor for The Yale Review. This is her first book.

Praise for this book

The stupendous Earth Room makes language a place. It's roomy, it's personal, it's every day.--Terrence Hayes

Earth Room is a wholly singular and lambent collection, made perfectly strange.--Jenny Xie

... Earth Room is a wholly original confessional-ekphrastic undertaking that brings artifice and reality so close, they speak with a single crystalline voice--Mannheimer's. This is an extraordinary book.--Robyn Schiff