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Author:
Ander Monson
Publisher:
Graywolf Press
Date:
February 4, 2020
In this collection of essays exploring topics from gun violence to the Renaissance Faire to sad songs, Monson wonders: How is our present connected to our past and future? How do neural connections form memories, and why do we recall them when we do? And how do we connect with one another in meaningful ways across time and space?
What The Reviewers Say
Alongside and through his scrutiny of the formatting of both a page’s text and its white space, Monson repeatedly examines self, memory, and the nature of truth in nonfiction in the contexts that compel him.
I Will Take the Answer is a clutch of cultural studies that on the surface revels in frivolity.
Monson’s attention to the layering of both physical and emotional landscapes makes his interest in the profound evident throughout the collection.
Many of the essays share [Monson's] short stories’ concern with interiority (Monson writes at length about tunnels and mines, and the inside versus the outside of rivers). But the essays are more varied in form and theme. Some of them make clever use of the physical form of the codex itself.
