Fugitive pieces book review5/24/2023 Just as the earth invisibly prepares its cataclysms, so history is the gradual instant. Not an explosion – planned, timed, wired carefully – not the burst door. It’s no metaphor to feel the influence of the dead in the world, just as it’s no metaphor to hear the radiocarbon chronometer, the Geiger counter amplifying the faint breathing of rock, fifty thousand years old.Īt sunrise the Parthenon is flesh. When I woke, my anguish was specific: the possibility that it was as painful for them to be remembered as it was for me to remember them that I was haunting my parents and Bella with my calling, startling them awake in their black beds. It is a wonderful book, full of beautiful prose and wise insight. I'm writing a review of Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels today, and thought I'd share some of the raw passages that most caught my eye.
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