Daywork by Jessica Fisher Paperback Book 9781639550722

A meditation on arts longevity and the brevity of human life from the highly acclaimed awardwinning author of FrailCraft and InmostJessica Fisher brings quotthe faraway closequot through ruthless yet tender interrogations of possibility and permanence Set against the backdrop of the fallen empire of Rome Dayworkamp160takes its title from theamp160giornatathe name in fresco painting for the section of wet plaster that can be painted in a single day where each amp8220dayamp8221 is marked by the hidden seams in a finished paintingIn a voice that is as poised as it is unmistakably urgent Fisher aims to uncover what adheres against the fabric of history and what becomes effaced over time Her search leads her to discover signs of ruin of a different kind and her poems begin to coalesce around a single perilous realization that time is not merely an agent of erasure Time is also a tether rendering violence beauty grief and art separate merely by a matter of days amp8220So you see once againamp8221 she writes amp8220violence is to beauty as the warp to the weft always somewhere beneathamp8221Like the fresco itself Daywork is committed to a time and sitespecific art and to the daily...