6/4/2023 0 Comments Blanket by Kara ThompsonIt is not the what, so much as the what is not : What is not seen, but within the folds. Kara Thompson has stirred a deep desire in me to understand. Simply exquisite in all its folds." - Kathryn Bond Stockton, Distinguished Professor of English, University of Utah, USA, and author of The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century (2009) "Kara Thompson's Blanket is an elegant, nearly seamless weaving through Native politics and histories, American violence, personal loss and remembrance, psychoanalysis and healing, geology, artworks and literature-varied stitches and detail toward the greater themes and design of comfort, protection, trauma, loss, and the disparate turnings of human living. Kara Thompson continues through her "unfoldings" to educate and surprise readers with new threads to follow and contemplate long after the small, but densely woven Blanket ends." - New York Journal of Books "Liquid brilliance blankets this book, making its forays endlessly moving-and often surprising. Thompson weaves together in her Blanket dichotomous ideas about blankets-art versus utility, hard shells versus soft wraps, infection versus protection-to illuminate the ways in which these may all be different sides of the same thing. "The gift of these volumes is how they tease out the unexpected associations and implications of their subjects, and Kara Thompson's Blanket is no exception.
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