{"product_id":"9781068240911","title":"Memory by Dorothea Lasky","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56367955149173,"sku":"9781068240911","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781068240911.jpg?v=1763548325","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781068240911","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}