TY  - BOOK
AU  - Manguso,Sarah
TI  - Ongoingness: the end of a diary 
SN  - 1555977030 (hardcover)
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Minneapolis, Minnesota
PB  - Graywolf Press
KW  - Manguso, Sarah,
KW  - Authors, American
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Diaries
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Time
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Essays
N1  - Autobiographical essay
N2  - "In her third book that continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay, Sarah Manguso 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 800,000 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 amid the chaos of time that rushes around and over and through us"--Publisher's website; The author traces the documentation of her own life in diaries over twenty-five years, exploring the struggle to find clarity in life
ER  -