Beyond Recall

"A painter, intellectual, social activist and articulate lesbian feminist, Mary Meigs began her writing career at age sixty. So luminous is her painter's recognition of the dance of shades and hues of context, so unsparingly lucid is her intellect of analytical and mindful thought, so unsentimental and profoundly self-aware is her heart, that her five published memoirs read like the most exotically crafted fiction." "Mary Meigs suffered a stroke in 1999. Undaunted, she embraced her new discontinuous fate with both a penetrating curiosity and an utterly undiminished will to create. New, discrete forms of writing emerged: an incisively contemplative journal; a witty, illustrated fax correspondence; and a series of collaborative "freewriting" sketches." "Lise Weil has constructed a celebratory gathering of these pieces in Beyond Recall, Meigs's paean to the indomitable human spirit and its triumph over the infirmities and obstacles old age imposes on the human condition."--Jacket.

Year

2005

Language

English

Publisher

Talonbooks

Editions

1

Pages

160

ISBN

9780889225053

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