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Synopsis
In these refreshingly bold, creative, and incisive essays, John D'Agata journeys the endless corridors of American's myriad halls of fame and faithfully reports on what he finds there. In a voice all his own, he brilliantly maps his terrain in lists, collage, and ludic narratives. From Martha Graham to the Flat Earth Society, from the brightest light in Vegas to the "outsider artist" Henry Darger, D'Agata's obsessions are as American as they are contemporary.
Contents
Round Trip
Martha Graham, Audio Description Of
Flat Earth Map: An Essay
Hall of Fame: An Essay About the Ways in Which We Matter
Notes toward the making of a whole human being . . .
Collage History of Art, by Henry Darger
And There Was Evening and There Was Morning
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"A daring, utterly original book by a young writer of rare intelligence and artistry. In Halls of Fame, John D’Agata sniffs out the quirky corners of our culture and makes them revelatory. With wit and finesse, and writing that’s as much poetry as it is prose, John D’Agata is redefining the modern American essay." -- Annie Dillard
"John D’Agata is pushing the envelope of the modern American essay. A maximalist’s intellectual curiosity collides with a minimalist’s austere lyricism to produce results that are novel, intriguing, and haunting." -- Phillip Lopate
"John D’Agata’s journey through genres, the American landscape, the history of thought, and the history of lyric action – a journey beautifully agonized over as he struggles between sentence and line – is the beginning of a journey for us as well with a voice that is changing our conversation with the world." -- Jorie Graham
"‘He had a knack, which was his lure, for both the mundane and fantastic’ – so says John D’Agata about one of his book’s eccentric population, but he could be describing his own omnivorous self. His writing is marked by an exuberance of structural invention, by an ever-churning hurdy-gurdy lexicon of lingual play, and by citizenship in the mazes of the mind and in hallways that mimic Ripley’s Believe It Or Not. Or, to update that last comparison: Halls of Fame is to essays what the Museum of Jurassic Technology is to gallery dioramas." -- Albert Goldbarth
About the Author
John D'Agata is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop with MFA degrees in both nonfiction and poetry. He is currently editor of lyric essays for Seneca Review.
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- PublisherGraywolf Press
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1555973140
- ISBN 13 9781555973148
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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