I'll be your mirror
Subtitle: essays & aphorisms
By: David Lazar ; illustrated by Heather Frise
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781496202062
Subjects: American essays
Other titles: I will be your mirror
Work titles: Essays
Description: "A collection of personal essays, pieces exploring the essay form, and aphorisms, I'll Be Your Mirror explores memory, pain, historical essayists, contemporary creative nonfiction, all in the distinct voice of premier essayist David Lazar"--
Table of contents: title: Brigadoon Bowling / Ann; Death and the Maiden / When I'm Awfully Low: On Singing / Lollipop Is Mine / Brushes with the Great and Not-So-Great / Brigadoon Bowling / Five Autobiographical Fragments, or She May Have Been a Witch / Pandora and the Naked Dead Woman / To the Reader, Sincerely / To the Reader, Sincerely / Being a Boy-Man / Hydra: I'll Be Your Mirror / A Conversation with Robert Burton, Author of Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), vox es, praeterea nihil / Meet Montaigne! (with Patrick Madden) / The Typologies of John Earle / Voluptuously, Expansively, Historically, Contradictorily: Essaying the Interview with David Lazar and Mary Cappello / Rock, Paper, Scissors, God: aphorismics / Rock, Paper, Scissors, God / Mothers, Etc.