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description: A man in search of a golden bead that is rumored to grant immortality. A would-be astronauts manifesto. An Archivist who cant help but record all of lifes statistics. In these thirteen small stories Anne Valente takes us to worlds both fantastic and familiar forgotten and foretold and in tight layered prose she strives to unravel all the tangled questions we have about ourselves. From the field guides of anatomy to permutations on desire these small stories are expansive and encyclopedic a cataloguing of love and loss an attempt to find a formula for everything that courses through us.
language: English
title: An Elegy for Mathematics
publisher: Origami Zoo Press