The Wet Collection: a Field Guide to Iridescence and Memory

Description

Using such models as Joseph Cornell's box constructions, crazy quilts, and specimen displays, Joni Tevis places fragments in relationship to each other in order to puzzle out lost histories, particularly those of women. Navigating the peril and excitement of outward journeyscomplicated by an inward longing for home, The Wet Collection follows Tevis through severaladventures that coalesce into a narrative imbued with the light of Tevis's Southern upbringing. Written with a poet's lyricism, a scientist's precision, and a theologian's understanding ofthe world as.;Prologue:; The Wet Collection; I.; A Field Guide to Iridescence and Memory; Traveling Alone; Jeremiad of a Bad Drought Year; Everything but Your Wits; Building a Funeral; Postcards from Costa Rica; The Rain Follows the Plow; Two Weddings (Venice; South Carolina); Chihuahua Desert Love Song; Dust Devils; II.; Beyond the Wilderness; The Little White House; Bigfoot's Widow; Gymnast; Second-String; Ave Maria Grotto; Even on Sundays; Plenty; Alcott in Concord; To Hear Her Tell It; Barfoot in a Borrowed Corset; III.; Crescent City Beach; Fossil; Pepper's Junk Store.