Intimate: An American Family Photo Album (Tupelo Press Lineage) - Hardcover

Rekdal, Paisley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1936797089 ISBN 13: 9781936797080

Publisher: Tupelo Press, Inc., 2012

Synopsis

INTIMATE brilliantly redefines "memoir" by assembling its narratives from divergent sources: the mixed-race marriage of Paisley Rekdal's parents, the life of photographer Edward S. Curtis (chronicler and myth-maker of the Old West), and the almost unknown story of Alexander Upshaw, Curtis's Native American guide and interpreter. Typographically adventurous, Rekdal uses a combination of prose, poetry, and photographs to create a panoramic yet intimate encounter with American history, and a new way of thinking about the riddle of identity.

About this title

About the Author:

Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee (Pantheon, 2000; Vintage, 2002), and three books of poetry. Her work has received a Village Voice Writers on the Verge Award, a Fulbright Fellowship, and the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship. Her poems and essays have been featured in The New York Times Magazine, NPR, and Nerve, and in many literary journals. She teaches at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Tupelo Press, Inc.
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1936797089
• ISBN 13: 9781936797080
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272