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Evan Lavandar Smith

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Description:The literature of the dispossessed has found its most stirring contemporary avatar in Evan Lavender-Smith's brief tour de force of grief and solitude. ... two stars one in front one behind both a quarter of a fingernail ... Someone is floating in the depths of space with little more than his or her thoughts, tears, and strands of hair for company; nothing more than two stars -- one in front, one behind -- for guidance. How long has he or she been in this condition? How did it come about? For how long will it remain? Distances of a second and a century collide to reveal a present moment beholden only to the broken clock of thought. In a mesmerizing and unforgettable monologue, the speaker of Avatar describes a mode of living and thinking sustained at the precipice of being.ADVANCE PRAISEThe hypnotically cadenced monologue of Evan Lavender-Smith's Avatar reaches us from such extremities of perversely perfected loneliness that, by elegant paradox, the self-haunting narrator deserves admission to the great, unconsolable fraternity of literature's everlasting isolatoes. --GARY LUTZ, author of Stories in the Worst Way and I Looked AliveThrough a process of carefully considered philosophical subtraction, Avatar renders opaque everything you've come to think of as transparent and transparent everything you've thought of as opaque. Lavender-Smith's book is a moving and formally challenging meditation on perception and loneliness that never takes a false step. It feels less like cross-genre work than pre-genre work -- it cuts through all our protective etiquettes of writing and culture to get at something important, essential, and painfully human. --BRIAN EVENSON, author of Fugue State and The Open CurtainAvatar exposes the paradox of self-consciousness where, in order to know itself, the subject becomes its own object, but in doing so loses itself as subject, ending up suspended in a space between the knower and the known. Evan Lavender-Smith's language unreels the real of the mind's spiel, offering a Cartesian meditation on being numerous, and reinventing writing as fractal phenomenology. --ANDREW JORON, author of The Cry at Zero and The Sound MirrorAvatar is a stunning work of linguistic pyrotechnics. Evan Lavender-Smith reveals how the fluidity of consciousness is mediated by sentences and grammar that even in their absence, mark boundaries. With apparent effortlessness, Avatar underscores how language clarifies, unmasks, and conceals simultaneously. This is a book to be read and re-read, to be taught and celebrated. --SUSAN DAITCH, author of L.C. and StorytownAvatar is a study in black and white of the aloneness of the alone, the meditation of a Beckett-like speaker trying to remember his way through a nighttime space behind the hope of a star or stars, haunted by memories of a rooftop, a staircase, a fingernail and the company of hair. --DAVID ANTIN, author of Talking and i never knew what time it wasCrafted in pitch and endurance, and pushed perilously close to breaking point -- its thematic location and leitmotif -- these pages tell a cover story about the unwanted idea prompting a self to voice the reason of unreason. Brutalities of a century and ten years are contained in that ritual distress: totemic commonplace of the present. --ROBERTO TEJADA, author of Mirrors for Gold and Exposition ParkLike Beckett's Texts for Nothing and Bernhard's Correction, of a light out of no light, Lavender-Smith's Avatar at once makes me want to kill myself, and to live. --BLAKE BUTLER, author of Ever and Scorch AtlasWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Avatar. To get started finding Avatar, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The literature of the dispossessed has found its most stirring contemporary avatar in Evan Lavender-Smith's brief tour de force of grief and solitude. ... two stars one in front one behind both a quarter of a fingernail ... Someone is floating in the depths of space with little more than his or her thoughts, tears, and strands of hair for company; nothing more than two stars -- one in front, one behind -- for guidance. How long has he or she been in this condition? How did it come about? For how long will it remain? Distances of a second and a century collide to reveal a present moment beholden only to the broken clock of thought. In a mesmerizing and unforgettable monologue, the speaker of Avatar describes a mode of living and thinking sustained at the precipice of being.ADVANCE PRAISEThe hypnotically cadenced monologue of Evan Lavender-Smith's Avatar reaches us from such extremities of perversely perfected loneliness that, by elegant paradox, the self-haunting narrator deserves admission to the great, unconsolable fraternity of literature's everlasting isolatoes. --GARY LUTZ, author of Stories in the Worst Way and I Looked AliveThrough a process of carefully considered philosophical subtraction, Avatar renders opaque everything you've come to think of as transparent and transparent everything you've thought of as opaque. Lavender-Smith's book is a moving and formally challenging meditation on perception and loneliness that never takes a false step. It feels less like cross-genre work than pre-genre work -- it cuts through all our protective etiquettes of writing and culture to get at something important, essential, and painfully human. --BRIAN EVENSON, author of Fugue State and The Open CurtainAvatar exposes the paradox of self-consciousness where, in order to know itself, the subject becomes its own object, but in doing so loses itself as subject, ending up suspended in a space between the knower and the known. Evan Lavender-Smith's language unreels the real of the mind's spiel, offering a Cartesian meditation on being numerous, and reinventing writing as fractal phenomenology. --ANDREW JORON, author of The Cry at Zero and The Sound MirrorAvatar is a stunning work of linguistic pyrotechnics. Evan Lavender-Smith reveals how the fluidity of consciousness is mediated by sentences and grammar that even in their absence, mark boundaries. With apparent effortlessness, Avatar underscores how language clarifies, unmasks, and conceals simultaneously. This is a book to be read and re-read, to be taught and celebrated. --SUSAN DAITCH, author of L.C. and StorytownAvatar is a study in black and white of the aloneness of the alone, the meditation of a Beckett-like speaker trying to remember his way through a nighttime space behind the hope of a star or stars, haunted by memories of a rooftop, a staircase, a fingernail and the company of hair. --DAVID ANTIN, author of Talking and i never knew what time it wasCrafted in pitch and endurance, and pushed perilously close to breaking point -- its thematic location and leitmotif -- these pages tell a cover story about the unwanted idea prompting a self to voice the reason of unreason. Brutalities of a century and ten years are contained in that ritual distress: totemic commonplace of the present. --ROBERTO TEJADA, author of Mirrors for Gold and Exposition ParkLike Beckett's Texts for Nothing and Bernhard's Correction, of a light out of no light, Lavender-Smith's Avatar at once makes me want to kill myself, and to live. --BLAKE BUTLER, author of Ever and Scorch AtlasWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Avatar. To get started finding Avatar, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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