<em>The Autobiography of a Language</em></br>Mirene Arsanios

A language wants to live, to claim kin beyond the bounds of blood and soil. Diving into the wreck of filiation, it recovers a story in fragments — an autobiography that shelters other lives while probing its own syntax of bereavement. Mirene Arsanios’s finely sculpted prose is fiercely situated. With devastating candor, it draws us into a thinking process that lays bare some crucial articulations of the present: the transactional nature of care, the relation between language and sex, the space between mourning and giving birth, what class does to the body, and what grammar is unable to accommodate. Between remembrance and dreamwork, every passage brims with exhilarating detail. This is some heady, magical materialism.
— Omar Berrada

Fall 2022 92 pages, 6 x 8
Paperback Prose / Non-Fiction
978-1-7330384-4-7