Sleights of Hand: The Deception Issue (Conjunctions) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0941964817 ISBN 13: 9780941964814

Publisher: Bard College Center, 2016

Synopsis

Children deceive, as do grownups, and many are the moments when all of us even deceive ourselves. People of every age and stripe, whether rarely or often, dissimulate, bluff and beguile. The writer who fabricates and populates worlds is a deceiver, as is the artist whose triumph is to trick the eye, to alter perception. The honest magician's livelihood is based on deception; so is the dishonest thief's. And consider the great Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva who wrote, "A deception that elevates us is dearer than a legion of low truths," thus complicating the subject entirely. This special issue of Conjunctions gathers a wide spectrum of essays, fiction and poetry on the clic subject of deception, exploring in original and thought-provoking ways a world in which truth is a most fragile, elaborate and mercurial thing. Contributors include Edie Meidav, Terese Svoboda, Yannick Murphy, Paul Hoover, Bim Ramke, Eleni Sikelianos, Magdalena Zyzak and many others.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bard College Center
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0941964817
• ISBN 13: 9780941964814
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 366
• Editor: Morrow Bradford