{"product_id":"ongoingness","title":"Ongoingness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA dazzling philosophical investigation of the challenge of living in the present, by a brilliant practitioner of the new essay\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In her third book, which continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay, Sarah Manguso confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for twenty-five years. \"I wanted to end each day with a record of everything that had ever happened,\" she explains. But this simple statement belies a terror that she might forget something, that she might miss something important. Maintaining that diary, now 800,000 words, had become, until recently, a kind of spiritual practice.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThen Manguso became pregnant and had a child, and these two Copernican events generated an amnesia that put her into a different relationship with the need to document herself amid ongoing time.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eOngoingness\u003c\/i\u003e is a spare, meditative work that stands in stark contrast to the volubility of the diary--it is a haunting account of mortality and impermanence, of how we struggle to find clarity in the chaos of time that rushes around and over and through us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42985556050000,"sku":"9781555977030B","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/ongoingness","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}