Confined to a hospital bed, a rattling mind stuck within a thwarted body discovers that to be an “I” is to be several, ‘municipal’, as Dillon has it. ‘Not alone, not alone, not alone.’ They — we, actually — are the ventilator keeping us breathing, the bundles of non-human cells we host, the songs of Townes Van Zandt, every poem we’ve ever read. Not of us but in us, not ours but flowing through us. With this, they come alive — too late, perhaps, but who isn’t? Fare Thee Well, Miss Carousel is a lyric daybook where the days never start and never end, in which the tiniest sparks of attention and perception address the deepest questions of language, meaning and consciousness — what it is to have a body and a soul, what it is to speak, or not to. Here, between the beforelife and the afterlife, it invites us to imagine new forms of living and dying, loving, care-taking, co-existing -- how we live with, amongst, inside of one another and the art we make.
Jennifer Hodgson
ISBN: 9781838311841
€ 15.00
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Date of Publication: 31/05/2023