{"product_id":"fischer-jessica-dayworkpb","title":"Fischer, Jessica: Daywork","description":"\u003cp\u003eMilkweed Editions, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: March 19, 2024\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: A meditation on art's longevity and the brevity of human life from the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eFrail-Craft\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Inmost\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJessica Fisher brings \"the faraway close,\" through ruthless yet tender interrogations of possibility and permanence. Set against the backdrop of the fallen empire of Rome, \u003ci\u003eDaywork\u003c\/i\u003e takes its title from the giornata--the name in fresco painting for the section of wet plaster that can be painted in a single day, where each \"day\" is marked by the hidden seams in a finished painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a voice that is as poised as it is unmistakably urgent, Fisher aims to uncover what adheres against the fabric of history, and what becomes effaced over time. Her search leads her to discover signs of ruin of a different kind, and her poems begin to coalesce around a single perilous realization: that time is not merely an agent of erasure. Time is also a tether, rendering violence, beauty, grief, and art separate merely by a matter of days. \"So you see once again,\" she writes, \"violence is to beauty \/ as the warp to the weft \/ always somewhere beneath.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike the fresco itself, \u003ci\u003eDaywork \u003c\/i\u003eis committed to a time- and site-specific art, and to the daily work of creation. At once an elegiac meditation and a brave unearthing, this book expertly discerns the monumentalizing portrayals of history and its violences, while boldly illuminating other crucial accounts of everyday existence. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40780793741335,"sku":"9781639550722","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/ibg.common.titledetail-1_d316ad26-ddae-404c-a59a-556e1ec8b4ca.gif?v=1701908162","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/fischer-jessica-dayworkpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}