These Threads Who Lead to Bramble: Essays

These Threads Who Lead to Bramble: Essays - Paperback

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These Threads Who Lead to Bramble: Essays - Paperback

These Threads Who Lead to Bramble: Essays - Paperback

by Russell Persson
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by Russell Persson (Author)

"Dazzling... a book to read again and again."-Tom Jeffreys, editor of Walking: Documents of Contemporary Art and author of The White Birch

Russell Persson's These Threads Who Lead to Bramble defies the singularity of any one genre as it braids together memory and myth to challenge the limits of our collective imagination

This is a book that contains multitudes--a celebration of the forgotten marginalia of Westernized thought. Persson's collection delves into eccentric twentieth-century American photographers, the lives of his ancestors both distant and recent, and of the artist Egon Schiele in prison, teetering on the edge of sanity. He interweaves the careers of three obscure composers--Alban Berg, Erik Satie, and Anton Webern--and imagines the composer's life based on listening to their music, rather than the other way around. And he charts the path of his own life from a long-ago teenage road trip, sleeping in the backs of friends' cars and trying to find himself inside a vast world.

As the work builds, the lines between personal memory and collective history become ever more abstract, blending inner and outer spheres to confront the unknowable expanse of universal existence. A must-read for fans of Michael Ondaatje's The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida, and W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz.

This work includes black-and-white reproductions of Egon Schiele's drawings, with permission from The ALBERTINA Museum in Vienna.
Number of Pages: 146
Dimensions: 0.6 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: February 18, 2025
ISBN9781938603228
Author Russell Persson
PublisherDzanc Books
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedFebruary 2025
LanguageENG- English
Pages146
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Russell Persson is a writer living in Reno, Nevada. The first American edition of his first novel, The Way of Florida, first published by Little Island Press in 2018, is forthcoming from Baobab Press in 2025. His second book, These Threads Who Lead to Bramble, will be published by Dzanc Books in 2025. His work has appeared in Unsaid Magazine, The Quarterly, 3AM Magazine, NY Tyrant, Hotel Magazine, Territory, and other literary journals.

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