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“I wasn’t always like this,” Laurie Blauner writes in her first creative nonfiction book. In this book houses fly, the Wizard of Oz reveals himself, a recipe for fur is shared along with how humans recreate themselves as animal hybrids, Nabokov’s Lolita infatuation is observed, and the author describes having been seen outdoors in her underpants. I Was One of My Memories is a collection of lyrical nonfiction that includes essays, poetry, prose, lists, postcards, and memoir. The twenty essays cover a variety of topics, obsession, telling lies, outer and inner spaces, myths and facts, evolution, aging, the death of a beloved cat named Cyrus, and the definition of what it is to be human. In the book secrets surface concerning how to talk to yourself, good and bad familial relationships, pretending to be another religion, and a mother lying about her age. The essays have appeared in magazines such as Tupelo Quarterly, Superstition Review, Laurel Review, [PANK] Magazine, Your Impossible Voice, Connotation Press, and others.
ADVANCED PRAISE
“I Was One of My Memories does one of the things that I love most about the thing we call creative nonfiction: it shows us its thinking, its flawed and idiosyncratic and completely delightful thinking. It is a thinking shaped by experience, pleasure, grief, and disappointment, while the diverse forms, the small essays, little animals of the mind, might be read as recursive attempts toward sense making. I also really love Laurie Blauner’s sentences. Sometimes they are absolutely strange and otherworldly, like Clarice Lispector’s sentences (“I pry what happened before from what happens next. / Borders and countries are changes in light. / I presume nothing has a happy ending. / Something is dangling from a cloud’s mouth.”) Sometimes, as in Suzanne Buffman’s Pillow Book, the sentences are deadpan and hilarious because they are true (“My husband is patient and I am not. He has long toenails so he won’t get ingrown ones. He likes old things, including me.”) I just realized I Was One of My Memories does another thing that I love most about creative nonfiction, that is actually something I need from creative nonfiction in particular: it makes me want to write. I toggle between the manuscript and a blank page that I gradually fill with my own sentences. Which is to say I feel like I am participating with this manuscript, I feel like we, Laurie and I, or at least her persona, are having a conversation. I am deathly allergic to her cats, but, oh how I enjoy the warmth of reading them.” – J’Lynn Chapman, Contest Judge and author of To Limn / Lying In
“I love this book’s fragmented and looping storytelling, its sense of humor, and its amazing, strange, and smart sentences.” – Caryl Pagel, author of Out of Nowhere into Nothing
“…so strange and true, structurally organic, surprising and moving.” – Polly Buckingham, author of Expense of a View
Laurie Blauner is the author of eight books of poetry and five novels. Her most recent book of poetry, A Theory for What Just Happened, was published by FutureCycle Press in 2021 and her latest novel, Out of Which Came Nothing, is available from Spuyten Duyvil.
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