Cities and Memory
Published on 1. January 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-0-925904-87-4 (ISBN)
Description
Barbara Henning's new book brings together several years of her atonal musings on autobiography, place and longing. Lyrical bursts punctuate the narrator's otherwise seamless restlessness-Detroit, New York, Tucson, and India.
The following Escheresque lines from one of Henning's narrators could well have been spoken by Nella Larsen's Helga Crane: 'Why am I here, I think, when I could be there? Because if I were there, I'd be thinking why am I here when I could be there.'
As lopsided as a grin on the edge of a nervous grimace ('sex is an ever available age old temporary cure for sadness'), Cities and Memory is a disjunctive incarnation of a simple, profound ethos: 'Don't forget me, he said.' And Henning doesn't"
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Weight
141 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-925904-87-4 (9780925904874)
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Barbara Henning is the author of two novels, YOU, ME, AND THE INSECTS and Black Lace. Her books of poetry include MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Detective Sentences, LOVE MAKES THINKING DARK, SMOKING IN THE TWILIGHT BAR, as well as numerous chapbooks and a series of photo-poem pamphlets. A collection of prose and poetry, CITIES & MEMORY, is forthcoming from Chax Press. A native Detroiter and a long-time resident of New York City, she now lives in Tucson, Arizona.