Ander Monson
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Readers of physical books leave traces: marginalia, slips of paper, fingerprints, highlighting, inscriptions. All books have histories, and libraries are not just collections of books and databases but a medium of long-distance communication with other writers and readers.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
Description
"A trip through a storm sewer in Tucson inspires Ander Monson to trace the city's relationship to Jared Lee Loughner, the gunman who shot Gabrielle Giffords and killed six bystanders, along with how violence is produced and how we grieve and honor the dead. With the formally inventive "I in River," he ruminates on water in a waterless city and the structures we use to attempt to contain and control it. He also visits the exuberantly nerdy kingdom...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The Gnome Stories focuses on characters who are loners in the truest sense ; who are in the process of recovering from mental, physical, or emotional trauma ; and who find solace - or at least a sense of purpose - in peculiar jobs and pursuits. A man whose wife has left him is robbed, so he decides to start doing his own breaking and entering, into his neighbors' homes. When another man's girlfriend is cryogenically frozen by her family after a car...
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The essay is rhizomatic: it builds off and shoots out conversations between us every time we read, reread, or write. When we speak back to others we amplify ourselves and get a foothold in an ongoing conversation. How We Speak to One Another collects those conversations, giving context to a genre, deepening the flexibility and vitality of its many forms"--
