| | TITLE | Karen Green: Bough Down | IMPRINT | Siglio | PRICE US | $36.00 CDN $36.00 | ISBN | 9781938221019 TRADE | FORMAT | Hbk, 6.25 x 7.75 in., 188 pgs, 53 color. | CATALOG | SPRING 2013 p. 71 | DISTRIBUTOR | D.A.P. | PUB DATE | 4/30/2013 | STATUS | Active | STOCK | In stock |
| "This exquisite book is an impressionistic miracle, an assemblage of short text fragments and collages by an artist trying to make sense of her husband's suicide. That this husband was David Foster Wallace is beautifully beside the point, for the focus here is on the experience, the bleak and necessary journey of grief. Green is a pointed writer, open and at a distance all at once. The effect is unsettling, elliptical, necessarily open-ended and at times brutally revealing: a necessary explication of loss as a fact of daily life."
- David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times book critic
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| | | Karen Green: Bough Down With fearlessness and grace,Bough Down reports from deep inside the maelstrom of grief. In this profoundly beautiful and intensely moving lament, artist and writer Karen Green conjures the inscrutable space of love and loss, clarity and contradiction, sense and madness. She summons memory and the machination of the interior mind with the emotional acuity of music as she charts her passage through the devastation of her husband’s suicide. In crystalline fragments of text, Green’s voice is paradoxically confessional and non-confessional: moments in her journey are devastating but also luminous, exacting in sensation but also ambiguous and layered in meaning. Her world is haunted by the unnameable, and yet she renders that world with poetic precision in her struggle to make sense of not only of death but of living. In counterpoint, tiny visual collages punctuate the text, each made of salvaged language and scraps of the material world—pages torn from books, bits of paper refuse, drawings and photographs, old postage stamps and the albums which classify them. Each collage--and the creative act of making it--evinces the reassembling of life. A breathtaking lyric elegy, Bough Down uses music and silence, color and its absence, authority of experience and the doubt that trembles at its center to fulfill a humane artistic vision. This is a lapidary, keenly observed work, awash with the honesty of an open heart.
Featured image is reproduced from Karen Green: Bough Down. | Cory Reynolds | Date: 5/29/2013 Siglio and 192 Books invite you to a book signing and reception on Friday, May 31 at 7 p.m. to celebrate the publication of Karen Green’s Bough Down, which Maggie Nelson, of the Los Angeles Review of Books, calls "an astonishment." She writes, "It is one of the most moving, strange, original, harrowing, and beautiful documents of grief and reckoning I’ve read. The book consists of a series of prose poems, or individuated chunks of poetic prose, interspersed with postage-stamp-sized collages made by Green, who is also a visual artist. Collectively the text bears witness to the 2008 suicide of her husband, the writer David Foster Wallace, and its harrowing aftermath for Green. The book feels like an instant classic, but without any of the aggrandizement that can attend such a thing. Instead it is suffused throughout with the dissonant, private richness of the minor, while also managing to be a major achievement." For the event, space is limited, so please RSVP at 212-255-4022 or info@192books.com. Featured image is reproduced from Bough Down.
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