This World Is Not Your Home

Ranging from third person accounts to essays in the form of notes, instructions, and extended meditations, this...
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Author: Matthew Vollmer
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Language: English
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This World Is Not Your Home by Vollmer, Matthew

This World Is Not Your Home

BD$30.06

This World Is Not Your Home

BD$30.06
Author: Matthew Vollmer
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Ranging from third person accounts to essays in the form of notes, instructions, and extended meditations, this collection of creative nonfiction unfurls like an idiosyncratic playlist of the possibilities available to the writer of creative nonfiction. The title essay tells the story of Vollmer's growing up in rural North Carolina, and catalogs the psychological pressures exerted by a religion that, while all-consuming for the author, seemed invisible to the rest of the world. An essay in the form of instructions for how to write a love story centers on two young star-crossed lovers at a Seventh-day Adventist boarding school. A trip to a mountain home built to resemble a castle reveals a secret underground bunker that houses tens of thousands of dollars' worth of Nazi militaria. An essay written in the form of notes takes stock of forbidden music. A husband and wife take a walk after dark, encounter a spectacular cosmic phenomenon, and return home to discover a distraught child. An investigation into NASA's Symphonies of the Planets, an album of electromagnetic impulses emitted by various planets, which was transformed into sound waves, occasions an extended meditation on space, music, and the meaning of sound. An eyewitness account of the aftermath of the shooting at Virginia Tech considers the surreal and sorrowful reactions to an unfathomable violence. In another essay, a preoccupation with his inevitable death causes Vollmer to imagine who his wife might remarry, and the cataloguing of his potential replacement's superior characteristics and preoccupations creates a kind of portrait in reverse. An essay that unfolds in a single paragraph recounts the house of Vollmer's best friend, which has since been razed, and becomes a requiem for the loss of a childhood filled with Nerf footballs, a farting dog, Intelevision track pads, and an obsession with finding hidden messages in rock music. A retelling of a trip with his family to visit his parents in their mountain home over Thanksgiving becomes an occasion to grieve a recent miscarriage, while dramatizing peculiar family dynamics and bearing witness to the beginning stages of a mother's early onset dementia. Written using a variety of forms and points of view, these immersive, voice-driven essays are a testament to the dexterity of the form.



Author: Matthew Vollmer
Publisher: Eastover Press LLC
Published: 04/18/2023
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.51d
ISBN: 9781958094105

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