Art and Intimacy

Shortlisted for the 2022 National Book Critics\' Circle John Leonard Prize for best first book \'...I don\'t know what comes after, once I decide to let desire have its way with me. How to un-melt the melted? How to turn the ground powder back into a person? This idea points to a knowledge that I don\'t have: how to love without losing the self.\' Plumbing the well of culture for clues about love and loss - from Agnes Martin\'s abstract paintings to Anne Carson\'s Eros the Bittersweet to Frank Ocean\'s Blonde - this brilliant work of debut nonfiction explores the state of falling in love, whether with a painting or a person. Pham creates a perfectly fractured portrait of modern intimacy, triumphant in its vulnerability and restlessness. Pop Song is a book about distances: the miles we travel to get away from ourselves, or those who hurt us, and the impossible gaps that can exist between two people sharing a bed. Here is a map to all the routes by which we might escape our own needs before finally finding a way home. Σελίδες: 288, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0708, Διαστάσεις: 13.8x13.8cm