Ongoingness: the end of a diary
(Book)
"In her third book that continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay, Sarah Manguso confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for twenty-five years. "I wanted to end each day with a record of everything that had ever happened," she explains. But this simple statement belies a terror that she might forget something, that she might miss something important. Maintaining that diary, now 800,000 words, had become, until recently, a kind of spiritual practice. Then Manguso became pregnant and had a child, and these two Copernican events generated an amnesia that put her into a different relationship with the need to document herself amid ongoing time. Ongoingness is a spare, meditative work that stands in stark contrast to the volubility of the diary--it is a haunting account of mortality and impermanence, of how we struggle to find clarity amid the chaos of time that rushes around and over and through us."--Publisher's website.
Notes
Manguso, S. (2015). Ongoingness: the end of a diary. Minneapolis, Graywolf.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Manguso, Sarah, 1974-. 2015. Ongoingness: The End of a Diary. Minneapolis, Graywolf.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Manguso, Sarah, 1974-, Ongoingness: The End of a Diary. Minneapolis, Graywolf, 2015.
MLA Citation (style guide)Manguso, Sarah. Ongoingness: The End of a Diary. Minneapolis, Graywolf, 2015.
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