BROKEN ROOMS: SCULPTURE IN 12 MONTHS OF HAIKU

Book ID/图书代码： 06840015B80840

English Summary/英文概要： Broken Rooms is a conversation between the haiku of Ellis Avery and the sculpture of William Corwin. Avery wrote the haiku originally in 2011, composing one a day. The haiku in that year-long text chart the daily, the seasonal, the spatial, the personal, and the eternal. Broken Rooms juxtaposes selected haiku from 2011 with photographs that echo the poems’ dual preoccupations with loss and space.

Corwin works primarily with plaster tiles that have been broken and arranged to create a mental city-scape that, like Avery’s poetry, communicates a presence that has passed and a past that is eerily present. Avery’s haiku, in turn, allow the reader to access the austerity and abstraction of Corwin’s sculptures through a lens that catches and breaks open their crumbling formations in a New York moment.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《破碎的房间》是作者Ellis Avery所创作的俳句和William Corwin所创作的雕塑作品之间的对话。Avery最初于2011年开始写俳句，每天创作一句。多年来创作的俳句记录了每日、每个季节的变化，记录了空间和个人的变化，也记录了永恒。《破碎的房间》挑选了2011年起写成的俳句，并配有照片，与诗歌的意境相呼应。

Corwin 最初用石膏砖瓦创作作品，砖瓦敲碎后重新组织排列，创造出金属质感的城市景观，与Avery的诗歌一样，Corwin的作品也传达出一种消逝的当下与永恒的过去。而Avery的俳句能够让读者更好地了解Corwin雕塑作品的简朴与抽象意义。（LYR）

Awards/获奖情况：“任意的某个星期二，盛开的鲜花，路人的眼神，平凡的夕阳……作者Ellis Avery 抓住了俳句的精髓。”——Michael Stipe

“Will Corwin所创作的具有启发意义的雕塑作品的照片为这本书增添不少生动的视觉元素。”——Brenda Shaughnessy

“通过文学与精神的结合，Ellis Avery 让我们感受到都市中心一年四季的旋转变化。本书精致细腻，充满日本元素，又具有纽约风味，无论是喜悦、恼怒、永恒的爱情或是悲伤，每一刻时刻都定格在这本书中，令人细细品味。”——Emma Donoghue

“Any random Tuesday, a flower blooming, the look in a passing stranger’s eyes, a mediocre sunset. The heart of a haiku: Ellis Avery has it.” Michael Stipe

“Photos of evocative sculptures by Will Corwin add a wistful, lovely visual element to this marvelous little book, which grasps the whole world in a handful of syllables.” Brenda Shaughnessy

“With as much literary ambition as spiritual grace, Ellis Avery makes us feel the spin of the seasons in the heart of the city. Hers is an exquisite contemporary sensibility–Japanese-inflected, New-York-spiced–that registers, savors and treasures every moment, whether of amusement, irritation, lasting love or grief.” Emma Donoghue

“The reader will find wonder and loss, grainy honey and the first magnolia of spring...It is the kind of book you can read all in one sitting, but might want to savor day by day as the year progresses.” --Two Cities Review

“Any random Tuesday, a flower blooming, the look in a passing stranger’s eyes, a mediocre sunset. The heart of a haiku: Ellis Avery has it.” --Michael Stipe, lead singer of REM and author of The Haiku Year

“These are profound short poems crackling with immediacy and the fragrant details of life...Each haiku is rather like an origami, intricate, layered, and tucked into itself, wingspan hidden...Marvelous...Grasps the whole world in a handful of syllables.” --Brenda Shaughnessy, author of National Book Critics Circle Award Poetry nominee Human Dark with Sugar

“With as much literary ambition as spiritual grace, Ellis Avery makes us feel the spin of the seasons in the heart of the city. Hers is an exquisite contemporary sensibility—Japanese-inflected, New-York-spiced—that registers, savors and treasures every moment, whether of amusement, irritation, lasting love, or grief at the sudden loss of her mother.” --Emma Donoghue, international bestselling author of Room

About the Author/作者介绍： ELLIS AVERY 曾著有《最后一个裸体》和《茶室之火》，前者曾荣获 Goldie大奖历史小说类奖项以及 Stonewall图书大奖，后者曾荣获 Lambda文学大奖，且入围Ohioana图书大奖。Avery撰写的书籍和诗歌曾在多家媒体上发表。 Avery毕业于戈达德学院，持有艺术管理硕士学位，并在哥伦比亚大学和加利福尼亚大学教授英国文学。

ELLIS AVERY is the author of the novels The Last Nude (Riverhead 2012) and The Teahouse Fire (2007). The Last Nude was the winner of the Goldie Award for Historical Fiction and the Stonewall Book Award and was featured in O, More, Curve, and more. The Teahouse Fire was the winner of the Lambda Literary Award, a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book, and a finalist for the Ohioana Book Award. Avery’s book of poetry The Smoke Week was published to acclaim by Gival Press in 2003, and her essay, The Sapphire and the Tooth was published in 2015 as a Kindle Single. Avery is a graduate of the MFA program at Goddard College. She has taught English Literature at Columbia University and the University of California, Berkeley.

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Rights sold: William Corwin holds sculpture photography rights

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