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To Limn / Lying In by J’Lyn Chapman

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Taking its inspiration from the artist Uta Barth’s photographs of the sun as it enters her home and the poet Francis Ponge’s notebooks kept during the German occupation of France, this collection of lyric essays contemplates light as seen through the domestic space and its occupants, predominantly the author’s young children. Meditations on how through light the external world enters into and transforms the private spaces of self and home inextricably link to the author’s writing on life, or the giving of life. These vocabularies weave and tangle while the essays’ forms depict the staccato rhythms of thought and the estrangement of time one experiences when living with children. The essays can be read as standalone pieces, yet build on one another so that patterns emerge, like the obviation of how language serves to illuminate and veil meaning, the repetition of and ekphrastic approach to religious imagery, and the ineffable experience of depression. These essays continually return to the speaker’s admission that the life one gives another is ultimately unsustainable and that despite this catastrophe of living there is the resilience and bewilderment of being together. 

“In J’Lyn Chapman’s To Limn/Lying In language becomes a breathing body we live inside even as the book’s heightened finely-tuned intelligence revels in each of its recurrent images (light, pregnancy, babies, mother, mothering, family). Each section, each spin, spirals and expands, connects terms unexpectedly, “emergence” and “emergency” for example idea, bringing them full term, until we are born into a world in which every word, every state of being a woman, is new. ” – Maya Sonenberg

“I enter my thoughts at my own risk,” writes J’Lyn Chapman, alerting us with simple forthrightness that whatever the work of thinking is, it is different than we thought. Nor are our thoughts exactly our own—somehow more than us, somehow less than us, both extremes a strange form of threat to the one who says I, in whom the thinking occurs. It is a kind of crisis: thought. A crisis: perception. And the ancient word’s old history bears itself out in all its complexity: a judge’s judgment; the crux of a disease that kills or does not; the moment a woman goes into labor. One might say, reading the necessary meditations in To Limn/Lying In, we must be born into the thinking we might do, initiated back into an infancy of open attention, nurse to the fundamental appetites, the serious hunger, not for food, but for light. Motherhood here is the threshold condition. It shakes the hubris of the self-knowing self apart completely, and lets the eyes open another I, one that isn’t equal to a name, that is known by no proper noun, that hovers in the isolate collective condition of being so deeply human you hardly know what is you are, but know you are, know your child is, and this world shared in unspeakable ways, light drops from the welkin-sky, comes through the mesh of the screen, through the window’s glass, and moving illuminate across the living room’s walls, mocks time by making it glow. I’ve seldom encountered a book that captures so honestly the timelessness within our hours—the comfort there, the terror. I’ve seldom read a book so humbly wise in knowing our deepest self is a location where light enters and sparks a thought—that thought might be the world, and it might be the child. It might be the curious lesson in the ways we are nourished by this world that requires of us only that we live our lives—yes, that risk.” – Dan Beachy-Quick

 

Read a review at: The Colorado Review

 

 ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

J’Lyn Chapman serves as an Assistant Professor in the Jack Kerouac School at Naropa University. Her book Beastlife was published by Calamari Archive in 2016. She has also published the chapbooks A Thing of Shreds and Patches (Essay Press, 2016) and The Form Our Curiosity Takes (Essay Press, 2015).


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