{"product_id":"pathemata-or-the-story-of-my-mouth-9798891060111b","title":"Pathemata, or, the Story of My Mouth","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\"\u003eIt’s not the dream that matters, it’s the telling of the dream – the words you choose, the risks you take in externalizing your mind\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a dreamlike portrait of a body in struggle to connect with itself and others. As the narrator contends with chronic pain, and with a pandemic raging in the background, she sets out to examine the literal and symbolic role of the mouth in the life of a writer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMerging dreams and dailies, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ePathemata \u003c\/span\u003erecounts the narrator’s tragicomic search to alleviate her suffering, a search that eventually becomes a reckoning with various forms of loss – the loss of intimacy, the loss of her father and the loss of a pivotal friend and mentor. In exacting, distilled prose, her account blurs the lines between embodied, unconscious and everyday life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith characteristic precision, humour and compassion, Nelson explores the limits of language to describe experience, while also offering a portrait of an unnerving and isolating time in our shared history. A stunning, original experiment in interiority by the adored author of \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eBluets \u003c\/span\u003eand \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Argonauts\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ePathemata \u003c\/span\u003eis a personal and poetic reckoning with pain and loss, both physical and emotional, as well as an uncanny meditation on love, affliction and resilience.","brand":"Wave Books","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":43018598580304,"sku":"9798891060111B","price":9.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/pathemata-or-the-story-of-my-mouth-9798891060111b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}