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I Was Not Born

by Julia Cohen
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781934819388
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Noemi Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Noemi Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 126
  • Original Price: USD 15.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 114 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): American / General

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. In this genre-blending collection, Julia Cohen entwines the lyric and the essay with text messages, transcripts of therapy sessions, letters between Paul Celan and Nelly Sachs, meditations on Levinas and John Coltrane to document a love story about language, suicide, anxiety, atheism, and finding a way back to feeling. Julia Cohen re-interrogates and reintegrates that ongoing paradox Psyche presents us-figure that refuses to stabilize the ongoing crisis between soul and mind. As of Psyche of old, Eros lurks everywhere, even in absence. But here, resisting the ease of mere allegory, Cohen stitches together differing forms of texts--lyric verse, prose poems bordering on the surreal, brief narratives, excerpts from psychoanalysis--to unfold the agonized reality of a lover's attempted suicide. I WAS NOT BORN opens in the extreme difficulty of relations falling apart; it ends in affirmation that word calls out as a lover calls--be it in sonnet or be it in text message--to its dearest counterpart, world.

Cohen, Julia: -

Julia Cohen is an interview columnist at Tarpaulin Sky. She's the author of one collection of lyric essays, I Was Not Born (Noemi Press, 2014), which was recently translated into German and released by Literaturverlag Droschl. She's also written two books of poetry, Collateral Light (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2014) and Triggermoon Triggermoon (BLP, 2011). Her nonfiction and poetry appear in issues of Nat.Brut, Juked, Jellyfish Review, Heavy Feather Review, The Rumpus, Entropy, Boston Review, and BOMB. She's currently working on a new collection of essays, Freak Lip.

Julia Cohen has a BA from Wesleyan University, an MFA from The New School, and a PhD from the University of Denver. She's an Assistant Professor of English and Literature at Wright College. She teaches creative writing and literature courses. She's an activist for public higher education.

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