Other Lives Our Own - Softcover

Weiss, Jason

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1963908538 ISBN 13: 9781963908534

Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

Each time I receive a message from Jason Weiss, I tell myself I’m lucky. Each text from Jason is an opportunity to discover a subject, to delve deeper into a question and to open a door toward a here that is richer and more inspiring. Like a painter’s picture or a sculptor’s forms, he invites us into a landscape where the words structure a fertile manner of thinking. This gathering of texts is a window onto his way of being in the world. He helps us to live better.
Ramuntcho Matta

If the best poetry pulls at your stomach, music can be a perspective. In Other Lives Our Own, Jason Weiss’s nimble prose links rich viewpoints with precise lyricism and meditative calm. In poignant narrative sketches, language, place, time, and experience combine into words with the power to bind existence to memory and thought. Snapshots of joy, loss, change, travel, pain, distance, foreignness, spirituality, and laughter interconnect in his artful reflections; in these moments, you can glimpse parts of your own story.
Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, Decolonizing American Spanish: Eurocentrism and Foreignness in the Imperial Ecosystem

Marvelously errant—from the hitchhiker to the wandering signature—these enticingly pocket-sized essays open like doors always heading outward. And all asking, what it is to be foreign?—in every sense, from feeling, as a child, slightly ajar with the world to feeling, as an adult, a different language in your mouth to acknowledging that that face in the mirror is no longer your own. The whole comes together to record a being taking his bearings in a world in which all elements, including himself, are in constant motion. It’s a deeply moving collection in every sense of the term.
Cole Swensen

About this title

About the Author

Jason Weiss was born and raised at the Jersey shore, schooled in Berkeley, spent a decade in Paris, and has been living in Brooklyn for 30+ years, working as a writer, editor, and translator. His first book was Writing at Risk: Interviews in Paris with Uncommon Writers (1991), followed by books on Brion Gysin, Steve Lacy, Latin American writers in Paris, and the ESP-Disk' record label. He also published Cloud Therapy (2015), short nonfiction texts on swimming, and translated books by Luisa Futoransky, Marcel Cohen, and Silvina Ocampo. With Iris Cushing, he co-edited a big book of selected poems by the late California poet Mary Norbert Korte (1934-2022), Jumping into the American River (2023). Spuyten Duyvil previously published another book of short nonfiction texts, Listenings (2023).

Edition details

• Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil Publishing
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1963908538
• ISBN 13: 9781963908534
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212