SHIFTING THE SILENCE by Etel Adnan
£11.99
SHIFTING THE SILENCE by Etel Adnan
£11.99
Title Shifting The Silence
Author(s)/Editor(s) Etel Adnan
Publisher Nightboat
Pages 88
Dimensions 140 x 203 mm
Format Softcover
Year 2020

A heart-rending meditation on aging, grief, and the universal experience of facing down death.

Shifting the Silence does just that, breaks the social taboo around writing and speaking about our own deaths. In short unrelenting paragraphs, Adnan enumerates her personal struggle to conceptualize the breadth of her own life at 95, the process of aging, and the knowledge of her own inevitable death. The personal is continuously projected outwards and mirrored back through ruminations on climate catastrophe, California wildfires, the on-going war in Syria, planned missions to Mars, and the view of the sea from Adnan's window in Brittany in a poignant often painful interplay between the interior and the cosmic.