Name: In the Cloakroom of Proper Musings, Paperback/Kristina Moriconi
Brand: Atmosphere Press
Price: 93.99 RON
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In the Cloakroom of Proper Musings is a work unique in form. The story, fragmented by a combination of white space and fleur-de-lis, is a sequential chronicling of one woman's joy juxtaposed alongside her need to survive. It is an ode to the intensity of a mother's love. It is a narrative in which memory solders itself into image, and image spins into movement. Words become a way toward balance. Time is a tightrope-walk, a knife-juggle. Kristina Moriconi creates a form--the lyrical primer, let's call it--wholly necessary to her subject--a true creative achievement. These brief, exquisite reports/meditations/lesson plans are profoundly tender in their love for family, and ferocious in their commitment to the inner life and the sanctity of language. It's the "accidental implications" as well as the "little vexing things" that, in Moriconi's hands, reinscribe motherhood--that is, the world beheld anew and nurtured, on behalf of us all. LIA PURPURA, Author of On Looking and All the Fierce Tethers "Sometimes being a mother is an act of contrition." Moriconi's kaleidoscopic voyage into the sometime sorrowful, but often joyous country of motherhood and the vagaries of being a woman in the world, is nothing short of a miracle. These narrative strands veritably vibrate and pierce the fragile membrane of experience, and allow us to both understand and forgive ourselves the humanity of living the maternal life. All throughout, the enormous and wondrous canopy of nature provides a backdr