Grace Period: Notebooks, 1998-2007

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Grace Period: Notebooks, 1998-2007

Literary Nonfiction. According to Frances Burney, "Awkwardness is, perhaps, more interesting than grace." Forfeiting the opportunity to be graceful, GRACE PERIOD: NOTEBOOKS, 1998-2007 would like to be something more interesting.

Full of curious knowledge, the book collects aphorisms, sketches, and fragments from ten years of life. Notes on various subjects, written hastily, using the first words that suggested themselves. Diagrams of relationships, denuded of situation, and infused with richness and depth of feeling and mental tentacle. Portraits of unidentified people by way of their handwriting, characteristic thought patterns, and tones of voice. Definitions of colloquial expressions, what they mean and how they are used. Detailed descriptions of people eating, with enough tea to float away on. Advice on love. Prayers, curses, dreams. Moral maxims. Occasional rhymes.

The special beauty of incomplete form depends on unachieved potential: because they are imperfect, fragments suggest a variety of perfections. They retain traces of their original context, as well as the charm of having escaped it.

Kunin's grace period started in 1998, when he moved to Baltimore; in 2007, he was in California, where he lives now. During that time, in these little notebooks, he was learning how to write.

Country	USA
Author	Aaron Kunin
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Kunin, Aaron
EAN	9780988713703
Edition	1st
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
ISBN	0988713705
Label	Letter Machine Editions
Manufacturer	Letter Machine Editions
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	328
PublicationDate	2013-04-01
Publisher	Letter Machine Editions
Studio	Letter Machine Editions
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Grace Period: Notebooks, 1998-2007

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