Picture Dictionary

By Kristen Eliason

"'Most of this doesn't translate' Kristen Eliason's clear-eyed elegy Picture Dictionary must finally concede: not those beautifully impenetrable kanji characters, not the misfired conversations between the American girl in flight and her Japanese hosts, and certainly not the grief that follows a lover's accidental death. This book attempts to wrestle what cannot be translated into some kind of order - not to explain or to solve anything, but to contain sorrow by giving it a comprehensible structure. As we proceed through the narrative parcellated into minute components in Eliason's dictionary, we piece together a life - that is to say, we remember, and that act of remembrance offers itself as a bulwark against the ineluctable solitude of human experience."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 193967512X
• ISBN13: 9781939675125
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Sundress Publications
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 10.0"