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Using elements of memoir, concrete poetry, archival research, interview, performance, and design in a radiant kaleidoscope of storytelling, the essays in \u003cem\u003eBRIGHT ARCHIVE \u003c\/em\u003edelight in challenging the reader's habits of interaction with the page and its possibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSarah Minor\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer and interdisciplinary artist and the author of \u003cem\u003eSlim Confessions: The Universe as a Spider or Spit\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the Noemi Press Book Award for Prose (2021), \u003cem\u003eBright Archive\u003c\/em\u003e, a collection of visual essays (Rescue Press, 2020), and the chapbook \u003cem\u003eThe Persistence of The Bonyleg: Annotated\u003c\/em\u003e, selected by Joseph Harrington (Essay Press, 2016). Minor serves as curator of the visual essay series at Essay Daily and as the Video Essay and Cinepoetry Section Editor at \u003cem\u003eTriQuarterly Review\u003c\/em\u003e. She holds a PhD from Ohio University, an MFA from the University of Arizona, and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Sarah Minor's sense of what an essay is, what it can look like, and what it can contain is way beyond what almost anyone else is even attempting. 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In this thrilling debut, Minor guides us deftly through the underground tunnels of a new age commune, to the branches of a birch tree to build a nest. This collection traverses continents and moves through time, insistent in its curiosity and dazzling in its innovation.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eMary-Kim Arnold\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"My favorite books are somehow architectural, and I've never encountered one built quite like this. Minor's prose has underground temples, a shadow self, it becomes the thing it describes. Prose morphing into pearls, rivers down the page, a diagram directs the eye, cupping an essay's threads. This is a book that, through both story and design, reminds us what wonder feels like.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eAisha Sabatini Sloan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Minor is a formidable essayist whose contributions to nonfiction are not limited to formal innovation. 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