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02638aam a2200337 i 4500 001 D65EBDDCB56E11ECAAE5E9575DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220406010018 008 210721s2022 ilu 000 e eng 010 $a 2021035770 020 $a 022675135X 020 $a 9780226751351 020 $a 022675121X 020 $a 9780226751214 035 $a (OCoLC)1263247037 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BDX $d YDX $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 082 00 $a 814/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Ogden, Emily, $e author. 245 10 $a On not knowing : $b how to love and other essays / $c Emily Ogden. 246 30 $a How to love and other essays 264 1 $a Chicago ; $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2022. 300 $a 120 pages ; $c 22 cm 505 0 $a How to catch a minnow -- How to swim -- How to hold it together -- How to give birth -- How to milk -- How to step over a snake -- How to herd -- How to riff -- How to turn the corner -- How to have a one-night stand -- How to listen -- How to have a breakthrough -- How to love -- How to elude your captors -- How to hope -- How to come back to life -- How to stay. 520 $a "Emily Ogden's On Not Knowing is at once a memoir and suite of pointed inquiries. Her brief, sharply observed essays invite the reader to think with her about problems she can't set aside: not knowing how to give birth, to listen, to hold it together, to love. Ogden moves nimbly across registers of experience, from the operation of a breast pump to the art of herding cattle; from one-night stands to the stories of Edgar Allan Poe; from kayaking near a whale to psychoanalytic meditation on drowning. Unapologetically personal in its range of reference and idiosyncratic in its canon, On Not Knowing takes for its subject neither a life nor a library, but a cherished world. Ultimately, Ogden wants to teach herself to resist the temptation of knowingness: to encounter passionate love, well remembered art, and the new lives of her children without forearming herself with a sense that these things are already understood. Committed, as a scholar, to the accumulation of knowledge, Ogden nonetheless finds that knowingness is, for her, a way of getting stuck, a way of not really living. These essays want to learn with us to resist the temptation to cling to the wall at the edge of the pool, and instead to swim"-- $c Provided by publisher. 655 7 $a Essays. $2 lcgft 941 $a 2 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20221206012458.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220406010146.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D65EBDDCB56E11ECAAE5E9575DECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search