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Ongoingness : the end of a diary / Sarah Manguso.

by Manguso, Sarah, 1974-

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Graywolf Press, [2015]

Manguso, Sarah, 1974-

Diaries -- Authorship.

Autobiographical memory.

Time -- Psychological aspects.

Women authors, American -- 21st century -- Anecdotes.

Authors, American -- 21st century -- Anecdotes.

9781555977030 (hc.)

97 pages ; 20 cm

"In her third book, Sarah Manguso confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for twenty-five years. "I wanted to end each day with a record of everything that had ever happened," she explains. But this simple statement belies a terror that she might forget something, that she might miss something important. Maintaining that diary, now 800,000 words, had become, until recently, a kind of spiritual practice. Then Manguso became pregnant and had a child, and these two events generated an amnesia that put her into a different relationship with the need to document herself amid ongoing time. Ongoingness is a spare, meditative work that stands in stark contrast to the volubility of the diary - it is a haunting account of mortality and impermanence, of how we struggle to find clarity amid the chaos of time that rushes around and over and through us. Sarah Manguso is the author of three memoirs, Ongoingness, The Guardians, and The Two Kinds of Decay; a story collection; and two poetry collections. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she teaches at St. Mary’s College"--Provided by publisher.

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