The Story
From âone of our most formally ambitious writersâ (Esquire), a moving account of art and caretaking in our precarious present. Â
The Light Room takes place over the course of cloistered seasons, between the rooms of an apartment and a cityâs green spaces, amid the exhaustion and isolation of caring for a baby and a small child. In search of relief from a moment both monotonous and profoundly uncertain, Zambreno engages a lineage of other writers and artists who have made art from a daily practiceâfrom Natalia Ginzburg to Joseph Cornell, YĆ«ko Tsushima to Bernadette Mayer, Etel Adnan to David Wojnarowicz.
What does it mean to bring new life, and new work, into this world of precarity and crisis? How are our memories, and our childrenâs, affected by our profound disconnection? Zambrenoâs most poetic, tender, and philosophical work yet, The Light Room represents an impassioned appreciation of community and the commons, and an ecstatic engagement with the living world.
Paperback | 256 pagesÂ
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From âone of our most formally ambitious writersâ (Esquire), a moving account of art and caretaking in our precarious present. Â
The Light Room takes place over the course of cloistered seasons, between the rooms of an apartment and a cityâs green spaces, amid the exhaustion and isolation of caring for a baby and a small child. In search of relief from a moment both monotonous and profoundly uncertain, Zambreno engages a lineage of other writers and artists who have made art from a daily practiceâfrom Natalia Ginzburg to Joseph Cornell, YĆ«ko Tsushima to Bernadette Mayer, Etel Adnan to David Wojnarowicz.
What does it mean to bring new life, and new work, into this world of precarity and crisis? How are our memories, and our childrenâs, affected by our profound disconnection? Zambrenoâs most poetic, tender, and philosophical work yet, The Light Room represents an impassioned appreciation of community and the commons, and an ecstatic engagement with the living world.
Paperback | 256 pagesÂ
