{"product_id":"pathemata-or-the-story-of-my-mouth-wave-books","title":"Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth (Wave Books)","description":"Used hardcover in Very Good condition. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eis\u003c\/b\u003e an experiment in interiority written in the pandemic studio. Something of \u003cb\u003ea\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ecompanion piece to 2009's \u003ci\u003eBluets\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003ePathemata \u003c\/i\u003emerges a pain diary chronicling a decade of jaw pain with dreams and dailies, eventually blurring the lines between embodied, unconscious, and everyday life.In scrupulously distilled prose, \u003ci\u003ePathemata\u003c\/i\u003e offers a tragicomic portrait of a particularly unnerving and isolating moment in recent history, as well as an abiding account of how it feels to inhabit a mortal body in struggle to connect with others. Formally inspired by Hervé Guibert's The Mausoleum of Lovers, and conceptually guided by Gilles Deleuze's notion of artist as symptomologist, \u003ci\u003ePathemata\u003c\/i\u003e is yet another urgent innovation from Maggie Nelson in the art of life-writing.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nelson, Maggie","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":53874761367835,"sku":"mon0000799739","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/4004\/3291\/files\/4669053488914.jpg?v=1788509695","url":"https:\/\/bookalley.com\/products\/pathemata-or-the-story-of-my-mouth-wave-books","provider":"Book Alley","version":"1.0","type":"link"}