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Sarah Manguso

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born

Massachusetts, The United States

gender

female

website

http://www.sarahmanguso.com/

genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Poetry

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Sarah Manguso (b. 1974) is an American writer and poet. In 2007, she was awarded the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship in literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her memoir The Two Kinds of Decay (2008), was reviewed by the New York Times Sunday Book Review and named a 2008 "Best Nonfiction Book of the Year" by the San Francisco Chronicle.

Her poems and prose have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Believer, Boston Review, The London Review of Books, McSweeney’s, The New Republic, and The Paris Review, and twice in the Best American Poetry series. She was the Hodder Fellow in Poetry at Princeton in 2003–2004, and has been awarded fellowships at the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, Yaddo, and MacDowell Colony, and a...more

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Books by Sarah Manguso

Average rating: 3.98 · 1,133 ratings · 219 reviews · 7 distinct works

	One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box: Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, How the Water Feels to the Fishes, and Minor Robberies by Sarah Manguso, Dave Eggers, Deb Olin Unferth 4.07 avg rating — 421 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	The Two Kinds of Decay 3.88 avg rating — 382 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Captain Lands in Paradise 4.10 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	Siste Viator 3.79 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	The Guardians: An Elegy 4.04 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Hard to Admit, Harder to Escape 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Pear Noir! (#4) by Daniel Casebeer (editor), David Erlewine, Adam Gallari 4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings	My rating:

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“Everything that happens is the last time it happens. We see things only as their own fatal brightness and there is nothing after that brightness.”
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“Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a chair can do.”
― Sarah Manguso

tags: chairs , infinity , movement , possibility , reality

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“Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of self.”
― Sarah Manguso

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