In the twilight of life, a black ribbon emerges from a frame…
Come and join us on January 27, 2024, at 7pm (GMT) for a discussion of Tomoé Hill’s Songs for Olympia. We will read this book alongside this essay by Joseph Schreiber: “The rope that keeps me from floundering: On Michel Leiris”.
Songs for Olympia is available from Asterism Books in the USA and Blackwell’s and Foyles in the UK.
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About Songs for Olympia (from the publisher): Songs for Olympia, written in the form of a response to Michel Leiris’s The Ribbon at Olympia’s Throat, itself a highly personal response to Manet’s painting, is an ode to the both the ribbon and the memory: what leads us to constantly rediscover ourselves and a world so easily assumed as viewed through a single frame.
About the author (from Minor Literature[s]): Tomoé Hill’s work has appeared in publications such as Socrates on the Beach, Exacting Clam, and The London Magazine, as well as the anthologies We’ll Never Have Paris (Repeater Books), Azimuth (Sonic Art Research Unit at Oxford Brookes University), and Trauma: Essays on Art and Mental Health (Dodo Ink).