I|I

I|I by Indermaur, Katherine. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780910969079.

A debut essay collection from the winner of the 2022 Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize. Katherine Indermaurs full-length debut, I|I, is a serial lyric essay that explores the mirrors many dimensions --philosophical, spiritual, scientific, mythological, historical-- alongside the authors own experiences. Anyone who has struggled with the disconnect between their outward appearance and their inner self knows how fraught and fragmentary it can be to behold ones own reflection. Indermaurs essay, however, does more than merely problematize the contested space where the face and the mirror meet. There is also affirmation to be found here. This is a book that thinks so keenly it breaks into song. "In fragments one might be known. Seen from dozens of angles, the mind may move among facets and see the whole. It is, in fact, how seeing works in the human brain anyhow. Katherine Indermaurs I|I finds rich resonances among these disparate but not discrete shards. Rather a full shape in time and space assembles. Both the lyric and the essay are fully achieved, home is sought, the self seeks to connect with all of what is beyond."--Kazim Ali, Judge of the 2022 Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Essay. Hybrid. Art. Womens Studies.