Reculer Pour Mieux Sauter: The Complete Work, Vols. 1-12 - Hardcover

Anne-Marie Levine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0692259414 ISBN 13: 9780692259412

Publisher: smallworldprojects, 2015

Synopsis

Reculer pour Mieux Sauter is a mixed-genre nonfiction work by poet/artist Anne-Marie Levine, re-constructing a complex family history in recovered scraps. Assembling photographs, documents, newspaper clippings, emails, quotations, and original text, the book is a searching project about memory and narrative, where the immensely personal is confronted by the forceful hand of history. Early on there is an uncle lost to the sinking of the Titanic. Years later, after so much, a second uncle becomes the last casualty of the Belgian forces while ferrying planes home in the weeks following WW II. As Levine traces the course of several lives in the fragments that remain, the many traumas of the time find their voice in the poetic detail of a stream-of-consciousness scrapbook.

About this title

About the Author

Anne-Marie Levine is a former concert pianist; the author of three books of poetry, and this artists book, Reculer Pour Mieux Sauter. She is as well a maker of digital prints, box art, and miniature paintings on wood.

Edition details

• Publisher: smallworldprojects
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0692259414
• ISBN 13: 9780692259412
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 355