The Book of Emotions General “An original and challenging short

“An original and challenging short novel

while single moments are expanded cubistically into entire landscapes

this anthology has provoked reactions across the globe

A collision between contemporary poetics and the Renaissance lyric

whose usage is surprisingly widespread

The Book of Emotions General “An original and challenging shortIn a future Brazil, a blind photographer considers a sequence of his old photographs . . . [continued] A blind photographer envisions "a haiku stripped of rhetoric that captures only what is in front of the camera." But without camera or lens, his instruments of optic prosody, he must reconstruct experience as a series of affective snapshots. The result, then, is not the description of a remembered image, but of the emotional memory the image evokes.