{"product_id":"9781911717454","title":"Pathemata : Or, the Story of My Mouth","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt's not the dream that matters, it's the telling of the dream - the words you choose, the risks you take in externalising your mind\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a dreamlike portrait of a body in struggle to connect with itself and others. As the narrator contends with chronic pain, and with a pandemic raging in the background, she sets out to examine the literal and symbolic role of the mouth in the life of a writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMerging dreams and dailies, Pathemata recounts the narrator's tragicomic search to alleviate her suffering, a search that eventually becomes a reckoning with various forms of loss - the loss of intimacy, the loss of her father and the loss of a pivotal friend and mentor. In exacting, distilled prose, her account blurs the lines between embodied, unconscious and everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith characteristic precision, humour and compassion, Nelson explores the limits of language to describe experience, while also offering a portrait of an unnerving and isolating time in our shared history. A stunning, original experiment in interiority by the adored author of Bluets and The Argonauts, Pathemata is a personal and poetic reckoning with pain and loss, both physical and emotional, as well as an uncanny meditation on love, affliction and resilience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fern Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49649711907064,"sku":"EB_ss0700_C10-02_SYDNEY","price":29.98,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9781911717454-1.jpg?v=1783751191","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/products\/9781911717454","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}