{"product_id":"lost-wax-essays-paperback","title":"Lost Wax: Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJericho Parms\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor her collection \u003ci\u003eLost Wax\u003c\/i\u003e, Jericho Parms borrows her title from a casting method used by sculptors. As such, these eighteen essays, centered on art and memory, offer an investigation into form and content and the language of innocence, experience, and loss. Four sections (each borrowing names from the sculptures of Degas, Bernini, and Rodin) frame a series of meditations that consider the boundaries of the discernible world and the extremes of the body and the self. Here Parms draws heavily on memories of a Bronx upbringing in the 1980s and1990s; explorations in Spain, Portugal, Ireland, and the American West; the struggle to comprehend race, love, family, madness, and nostalgia; and the unending influence of art, poetry, and music. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten largely within the galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, \u003ci\u003eLost Wax\u003c\/i\u003e is an inquiry into the ways we curate memory and human experience despite the limits of observation and language. In these essays, Parms exhibits and examines her greatest obsessions: how to describe the surface of marble or bronze; how to embrace the necessary complexities of identity, stillness and movement, life and death--how to be young and alive.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJericho Parms is the assistant director of the MFA writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts and teaches at Champlain College. Her essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eFourth Genre\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNormal School\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHotel Amerika\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBrevity, \u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.49 x 8.57 x 5.49 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42722421211199,"sku":"9780820350158","price":34.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/9d5b807db3e14f02434f72ef1a654ea7.webp?v=1765095708","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/lost-wax-essays-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}