{"product_id":"pathemata-or-the-story-of-my-mouth-9798891060388","title":"Pathemata, Or, the Story of My Mouth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e***Longlisted for the 2025 PEN\/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay***\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth\u003c\/i\u003e is an experiment in interiority written in the pandemic studio. Something of a companion piece to 2009's \u003ci\u003eBluets\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePathemata \u003c\/i\u003emerges a pain diary chronicling a decade of jaw pain with dreams and dailies, eventually blurring the lines between embodied, unconscious, and everyday life.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn scrupulously distilled prose, \u003ci\u003ePathemata\u003c\/i\u003e offers a tragicomic portrait of a particularly unnerving and isolating moment in recent history, as well as an abiding account of how it feels to inhabit a mortal body in struggle to connect with others. Formally inspired by Hervé Guibert's\u003ci\u003eThe Mausoleum of Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e, and conceptually guided by Gilles Deleuze's notion of artist as symptomologist, \u003ci\u003ePathemata\u003c\/i\u003eis yet another urgent innovation from Maggie Nelson in the art of life-writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maggie Nelson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wave Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.90w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798891060388","brand":"Wave Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45463052419209,"sku":"9798891060388","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_9aef93c5-8c1b-41bd-965d-8b22e97738a1.jpg?v=1774996268","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/pathemata-or-the-story-of-my-mouth-9798891060388","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}