Art Metropole

19 Apr. 2019

Launch - Mourning Anthology

Time

7-8:30 pm

Featuring writing & readings by:

CARL ABRAHAMSEN
AKASH BANSAL
BENJAMIN DE BOER
JACLYN BRUNEAU
ADAM CAVANAUGH
DANIELLA SANADER
FAN WU

Book designed by ROWAN LYNCH

Friday April 19th
7pm – 830pm

Grief casts a shadow not only over life, but the possibility of grief’s very process. To communicate one’s mourning is to fall into all the paradoxes that surround loss, writing, and language. Can we write about loved ones lost, and how do we navigate the ethics not only of what we write, but how we write? When should we choose writing over silence? The urgency of grief seems to demand our greatest detail, yet that imperative is laced with a sense of impossibility. What language is left for the task?

Mourning Anthology is a collection that arises from intensive workshops hosted through Art Metropole in the summer of 2017. These seven texts, produced from our reading and writing-together, pose the question of mourning’s representability by engaging various forms, including: mythology; poetry; short story; lyric research essay; homophonic translation; recipes; and notebook entries. Please join us in thinking and feeling through these knottiest questions that mourning throws into relief.

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