A Faithful Existence: Reading, Memory, and Transcendence [Hardcover]

Forrest Gander (Author)

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Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Shoemaker & Hoard (Oct 18 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 159376071X
ISBN-13: 978-1593760717
Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 15.5 x 1.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 408 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #993,503 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"A Faithful Existence" is a thrilling, lyrical exploration of what it means to be faithful in the act of translation, in scientific and spiritual inquiry, in philosophies of perception, in friendship, and in poetry. Sensual, erudite, and operatic in scope, these essays pay homage to the landscape of the American South, to snapping turtles and anti-particles, to iconoclastic physicists and writers from various countries and epochs, to visionary poets and to poetic hoaxes.
Forrest Gander pops the hood of the standard-issue essay and hotwires it for the 21st century, re-tuning compelling associations and vivid bursts of insight into the quality of immediate experience. He connects with an ethical vision, a bodily consciousness, and a mode of language that might help us to survive the streams of data, the discombobulating media, and the predatory march of "information" that defines our age.