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I'll Be Your Mirror: Essays and Aphorisms

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About the Book

In his third book of essays, David Lazar blends personal meditations on sex and death with considerations of popular music and coping with anxiety through singing, bowling, and other distractions. He sets his work apart as both in the essay and of the essay by throwing himself into the form’s past-interviewing or speaking to past masters and turning over rocks to find lost gems of the essay form. I’ll Be Your Mirror further expands the dimensions of contemporary nonfiction writing by concluding with a series of aphorisms. Surreal, comical, and urban moments of being, they are part Cioran, part Kafka, and part Lenny Bruce. These are accompanied by Heather Frise’s illustrations, whose looking-glass visions of motherhood-funny and grotesque-meet the vision of the aphorist in this most unusual nonfiction book.  

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments     Brigadoon Bowling Ann; Death and the Maiden     When I’m Awfully Low: On Singing     Lollipop Is Mine     Brushes with the Great and Not-So-Great     Brigadoon Bowling     Five Autobiographical Fragments, or She May Have Been a Witch     Pandora and the Naked Dead Woman     To the Reader, Sincerely To the Reader, Sincerely     Being a Boy-Man     Hydra: I’ll Be Your Mirror     A Conversation with Robert Burton, Author of Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), vox es, praeterea nihil     Meet Montaigne! (with Patrick Madden)     The Typologies of John Earle     Voluptuously, Expansively, Historically, Contradictorily: Essaying the Interview with David Lazar and Mary Cappello     Rock, Paper, Scissors, God: aphorismics     Rock, Paper, Scissors, God     Mothers, Etc.     Source Credits    

About the Author :
David Lazar is a professor of creative writing and English at Columbia College Chicago. He is the editor of the journal Hotel Amerika and the author of several books, including Who’s Afraid of Helen of Troy: An Essay on Love and Occasional Desire: Essays (Nebraska, 2013). Heather Frise is a filmmaker, educator, and visual artist. She recently worked on the National Film Board of Canada’s Emmy award–winning Highrise.

Review :
“Traditional aphorisms are stand-alone wisecracks, but David Lazar’s are more like stairs up into a strange isolation or down into the stranger isolation of our community with each other-‘The bliss of opening the door and finding no one there.’ They are an ultraviolet that illuminates without lightening; they are genially at home in the dark. Exhilarating and unpredictable reading.”-James Richardson, author of During and By the Numbers: Poems and Aphorisms    “In David Lazar’s essays, the ostensible subjects become mindstream explorations in which music and memory dance to the intimate mysteries of human love and longing.”-Lawrence Sutin, author of A Postcard Memoir and Jack and Rochelle


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781496202062
  • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 248
  • Sub Title: Essays and Aphorisms
  • ISBN-10: 1496202066
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 248
  • Width: 152 mm


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