The Witch of Eye

The Witch of Eye
Kathryn Nuernberger
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4 Mar 2021 US
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9781946448705
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This amazingly wise and nimble collection investigates the horrors inflicted on so-called ' witches' of the pastThe Witch of Eye unearths salves, potions, and spells meant to heal, yet interpreted by inquisitors as evidence of evil. The author describes torture and forced confessions alongside accounts of gentleness of legendary midwives. In one essay about a trial, we learn through folklore that Jesus' s mother was a midwife who cured her own son' s rheumatism. In other essays there are subtle parallels to contemporary discourse around abortion and environmental destruction. Nuernberger weaves in her own experiences, too. There' s an ironic look at her own wedding, an uncomfortable visit to the Prague Museum of Torture, and an afternoon spent tearing out a garden in a mercurial fit. Her researched material is eye-opening, lively, and often funny, making for an absolutely thrilling collection.
Reading Group Choices 2021 Official SelectionThe Rumpus, "What to Read When 2021 Is Just Around the Corner""Part memoir, part cultural criticism, entirely fascinating. "-Kirkus Reviews, starred review"This book is a social history, threaded through with folklore, mythology, current events, and glimpses into the author' s own marriage. It is a poetic and hypnotic trance of a read. "-Booklist"Kathryn Nuernberger is the witch of seeing clearly and telling all the truths at once. Her searing, all-seeing EYE casts a brilliant spell of honesty and power. In language ranging from the meditative to the brutally funny. Nuernberger stitches histories and hexes together, elegantly tracing the threads between how we talk about violence, nature, industry, and culture. This is a collection of wild and astonishing scope-excavating the past in ways that are entirely modern and necessary. "-V. V. Ganeshananthan, author of Love Marriage"A magnificent book, full of incidental pleasures, and incidental terrors, and fundamental truths. Nuernberger writes like a Baudelaire who instead of walking across a city can walk across time. " -Rivka Galchen, author of Little Labors"Seething with the historical, the scholarly, and the personal, The Witch of Eye is an igneous cauldron for the witchiest of intellectuals and revolutionaries. Dip in a ladle and pull out the blistering truths of how women are seen, how women see themselves. Nuernberger has mixed this potion with the subtlety of Rachel Cusk and the sharpness of Agota Kristof, and the result is a twisting, profound, shape-shifting work of art, an incisive elixir to be consumed again and again. "-Sharma Shields, author of The Cassandra"Kathryn Nuernberger' s investigations of historic witch trials and their contemporary echoes perform linguistic sorcery. In Salem courtrooms and university Title IX panels, the essays in The Witch of Eye interrogate the interrogators, asking what cruelties we allow, revel in, mythologize, turn away from. They stay up late, parsing spells: a walk in the woods, a black toad hung up by its heels, lavender wine. What will make us whole? They root around in centuries of testimony, sorting truth from lies and bravery from cowardice, then haul out the necessary witch, the one we need for survival. "-Kim Todd, author of Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis
Kathryn Nuernberger is the author of three poetry collections, Rue, The End of Pink, and Rag & Bone, as well as the essay collection Brief Interviews with the Romantic Past. A recipient of grants and fellowships from the NEA, H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Bakken Museum of Electricity in Life, and American Antiquarian Society, she was awarded the James Laughlin Prize from the Academy of American Poets and has twice been included on the list of Best American Notable Essays. She teaches on the faculty of the MFA program at the University of Minnesota.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781946448705
Published: 4 Mar 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Sarabande Books, Incorporated
Publisher: Sarabande Books, Incorporated
Format: Paperback
Height: 197mm
Width: 133mm
Pages: 144

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