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Harvard University; University of Iowa.
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(The Two Kinds of Decay ) Author: Sarah Manguso May-2009
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Siste Viator by Sarah Manguso (2006-03-01)
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The Captain Lands in Paradise by Manguso, Sarah (April 1, 2002) Paperback
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The Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso (2-Feb-2012) Paperback
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(The Guardians: An Elegy ) Author: Sarah Manguso Feb-2012
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The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir
( At twenty-one, just as she was starting to comprehend t...)
At twenty-one, just as she was starting to comprehend the puzzles of adulthood, Sarah Manguso was faced with another: a wildly unpredictable autoimmune disease that appeared suddenly and tore through her twenties, paralyzing her for weeks at a time, programming her first to expect nothing from life and then, furiously, to expect everything. In this captivating story, Manguso recalls her struggle: arduous blood cleansings, collapsed veins, multiple chest catheters, depression, the deaths of friends and strangers, addiction, and, worst of all for a writer, the trite metaphors that accompany prolonged illness. A book of tremendous grace, The Two Kinds of Decay transcends the very notion of what an illness story can and should be.
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Two Kinds of Decay
(At twenty-one, just as she was starting to comprehend the...)
At twenty-one, just as she was starting to comprehend the puzzles of adulthood, Sarah Manguso was faced with another: a wildly unpredictable autoimmune disease that appeared suddenly and tore through her twenties, paralysing her for weeks at a time, programming her first to expect nothing from life and then, furiously, to expect everything. In this captivating story, Manguso recalls her struggle: arduous blood cleansings, collapsed veins, multiple chest catheters, depression, the deaths of friends and strangers, addiction, and, worst of all for a writer, the trite metaphors that accompany prolonged illness. A book of tremendous grace and humour, The Two Kinds of Decay transcends the very notion of what an illness story can and should be.
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The Guardians: An Elegy by Sarah Manguso (2013-02-07)
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Ongoingness: The End of a Diary by Sarah Manguso (2015-03-03)
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Siste Viator
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“This book is for those of us who want to read more poetry but are frequently stopped by its--what is it? Its chilly self-seriousness? Its unwillingness to hold our hand every so often, while cracking an easy joke? Either way, Sarah Manguso, like her spiritual siblings David Berman and Tony Hoagland, is a friendly kind of savior and guide. Her writing is gorgeous and cerebral (imagine Anne Carson) but she doesn't skimp on the wit (imagine Anne Carson's ne'er-do-well niece). Poetry-fearers, don't back away from this beautiful book; these might be the pages that bring you back into the form.” --Dave Eggers
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The Guardians: An Elegy for a Friend
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"An unidentified white man was struck and instantly killed by a Metro-North train last night," reported the July 24, 2008, edition of the Riverdale Press. This man was named Harris, and The Guardians―written in the years after he escaped from a psychiatric hospital and ended his life―is Sarah Manguso's heartbreaking elegy. Harris was a man who "played music, wrote software, wrote music, learned to drive, went to college, went to bed with girls." In The Guardians, Manguso grieves not for family or for a lover, but for a best friend. With startling humor and candor, she paints a portrait of a friendship between a man and a woman―in all its unexpected detail―and shows that love and grief do not always take the shapes we expect them to.
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One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box: Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, How the Water Feels to the Fishes, and Minor Robberies
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In the grand tradition of Neapolitan ice cream, ZZ Top, and Cerberus, the tri-headed guardian of Hades, this set combines individual, short fiction collections by three talented practitioners of the short-short form. Manguso’s Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape is a series of crystalline recollections of her childhood misadventures; Eggers’ How the Water Feels to the Fishes brings a deadpan absurdism to the intimacy and vision of his earlier work; and Unferth’s rollicking Minor Robberies unleashes a horde of off-kilter characters and their indelible misadventures. Each author’s work comes in its own hardcover, foil-stamped volume, and the three volumes are housed in an elegant slipcase.
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Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
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“Manguso has written the memoir we didn’t realize we needed.” ―The New Yorker In Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay. In it, she confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for twenty-five years. “I wanted to end each day with a record of everything that had ever happened,” she explains. But this simple statement belies a terror that she might forget something, that she might miss something important. Maintaining that diary, now eight hundred thousand words, had become, until recently, a kind of spiritual practice. Then Manguso became pregnant and had a child, and these two Copernican events generated an amnesia that put her into a different relationship with the need to document herself amid ongoing time. Ongoingness is a spare, meditative work that stands in stark contrast to the volubility of the diary―it is a haunting account of mortality and impermanence, of how we struggle to find clarity in the chaos of time that rushes around and over and through us. “Bold, elegant, and honest . . . Ongoingness reads variously as an addict’s testimony, a confession, a celebration, an elegy.” ―The Paris Review “Manguso captures the central challenge of memory, of attentiveness to life . . . A spectacularly and unsummarizably rewarding read.” ―Maria Popova, Brain Pickings
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The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir by Sarah Manguso (2009-05-26)
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(The Guardians: An Elegy) Author: Sarah Manguso published on (June, 2012)
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(The Guardians: An Elegy ) Author: Sarah Manguso Feb-2013
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The Captain Lands in Paradise
(Poetry. Sarah Manguso's first collection, a combination o...)
Poetry. Sarah Manguso's first collection, a combination of verse and prose poems, explores love, nostalgia, remorse, and the joyful and mysterious preparation for the discoveries of new lands, selves, and ideas. The poems are accessible yet cryptic, and the voice is consistently spare, honest, understated and eccentric.
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By Sarah Manguso - Ongoingness: The End of a Diary (2015-03-18) Hardcover
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Sarah Manguso
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Her memoir The Two Kinds of Decay (2008), was reviewed by the New York Times Sunday Book Review and named a 2008 "Best Nonfiction Book of the Year" by the San Francisco Chronicle. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University and her Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers" Workshop. She has taught creative writing at the Pratt Institute and in the graduate program at The New School, and currently teaches at the Otis College of Art and Design.
She lives in Los Los Angeles
Her poems and prose have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Believer, Boston Review, The London Review of Books, McSweeney’s, The New Republic, and The Paris Review, and twice in the Best American Poetry series. 2012: Salon What To Read Awards, The Guardians.
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The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir
( At twenty-one, just as she was starting to comprehend t...)
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Two Kinds of Decay
(At twenty-one, just as she was starting to comprehend the...)
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Siste Viator
(“This book is for those of us who want to read more poetr...)
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One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box: Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, How the Water Feels to the Fishes, and Minor Robberies
( In the grand tradition of Neapolitan ice cream, ZZ Top,...)
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The Guardians: An Elegy for a Friend
( "An unidentified white man was struck and instantly kil...)
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Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
( “Manguso has written the memoir we didn’t realize we ne...)
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The Captain Lands in Paradise
(Poetry. Sarah Manguso's first collection, a combination o...)
- (The Two Kinds of Decay ) Author: Sarah Manguso May-2009
- Siste Viator by Sarah Manguso (2006-03-01)
- The Captain Lands in Paradise by Manguso, Sarah (April 1, 2002) Paperback
- The Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso (2-Feb-2012) Paperback
- (The Guardians: An Elegy ) Author: Sarah Manguso Feb-2012
- The Guardians: An Elegy by Sarah Manguso (2013-02-07)
- Ongoingness: The End of a Diary by Sarah Manguso (2015-03-03)
- The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir by Sarah Manguso (2009-05-26)
- (The Guardians: An Elegy) Author: Sarah Manguso published on (June, 2012)
- (The Guardians: An Elegy ) Author: Sarah Manguso Feb-2013
- By Sarah Manguso - Ongoingness: The End of a Diary (2015-03-18) Hardcover
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The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir
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Guggenheim Fellowship; Rome Prize Pushcart Prize; Rome Prize
The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.