The End of My Wits |
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| Author:
| Farber, Thomas |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9833919-7-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2013 |
| Publisher: | El Leon Literary Arts
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $20.00 |
Book Description:
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Literary Nonfiction. THE END OF MY WITS is a collection of the epigrams of Thomas Farber with recent additions, including an essay on the epigram by poet and fiction writer Laura Glen Louis. "To revive the epigram in the age of tweets and texts is a Herculean undertaking. Working in the tradition of Rochefoucauld, Chamfort, and Joubert (with side trips from Confucius to Wilde), Thomas Farber brings a twenty-first-century sensibility to the literary miniature. His epigrams...
More DescriptionLiterary Nonfiction. THE END OF MY WITS is a collection of the epigrams of Thomas Farber with recent additions, including an essay on the epigram by poet and fiction writer Laura Glen Louis.
"To revive the epigram in the age of tweets and texts is a Herculean undertaking. Working in the tradition of Rochefoucauld, Chamfort, and Joubert (with side trips from Confucius to Wilde), Thomas Farber brings a twenty-first-century sensibility to the literary miniature. His epigrams are not so much self-contained pearls as the knife-sharp shards of a shattered mirror—in which we make out the shapes of our selves not in the bits of glass but in the spaces between the fragments."—Thomas Christensen, author of 1616: The World in Motion