Air salt : a trauma mémoire as a result of the fall / Ian Kinney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kinney, Ian, author.

Series:

Brave & brilliant series ; no. 12.

Brave & brilliant series, 2371-7238 ; no. 12.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kinney, Ian--Poetry.

Kinney, Ian.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

121 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Calgary, Alberta, Canada : University of Calgary Press, [2019]

Summary:

"Ian Kinney fell seven stories, and he survived. In "Air Salt", Kinney (un)writes his hospitalization and recovery, using poetry as neuro-rehabilitation. A memoir written by an amnesiac, this collection stitches splintered narratives with projective verse, cutting up and reassembling found text from Get Well Soon Cards, emails between friends, excerpts from personal journals, written records of eye witnesses, the Police and EMS reports, relevant Real Estate listings, nurses' charts, doctors' notes, hospital brochures, and Kinney's Neuropsychological Assessment: all increasingly recombinant, all increasingly in chorus. Kinney re-sorts the writing to etch in itself a more essential expression, "Air Salt". A challenging, prototypic piece of posttraumatic writing, "Air Salt" accommodates narrative discord and juxtaposes heterogenous voices. It reflects the lived experience of trauma, continually (re)arranging distorted phrases, interrogating and (re)forming itself, and (re)fusing to compromise. "Air Salt" reintegrates a shattered body of local narratives and presses on."-- Provided by publisher.

Other Format:

Online version: Kinney, Ian. Air salt.

ISBN:

9781773851129

1773851128

OCLC:

1096530797