Memory

Author(s): Lasky, Dorothea,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 04/11/2025,
Pagination: 320 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Silver Press,
Published By: Silver Press,
Book Classification: Poetry by individual poets,
Dimensions: 198 x 129
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9781068240911

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What constitutes personhood and consciousness? What memories get lost, and why? Dorothea Lasky’s Memory is a cycle of poet’s essays ranging across three dimensions of memory – ancestral, personal and poetic – to reflect on art; time, both everyday and the transcendent; charged sites of collective reminiscence, such as the moon landing; and forgetting through her father’s experience of Alzheimer’s.

Lasky broaches the edges of knowability: what’s left where memory is absent? What’s ‘real’ beyond the horizon of death? The book closes with ‘Time, the Rose, and the Moon’, an ars poetica exploring the ouroboros as a symbol for the nonlinear processes of time, memory and art. Lasky reveals memory to be huge and haunting, as she accumulates impressions that challenge the possibility of fixed meaning.

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