You Are Not Vanished Here

In the hands of writer Beth Kephart, the essay is endlessly elastic-a braid, a collage, a villanelle, an instruction manual, a plea, a letter, musical notes, a story simple told, a flash. In pieces that range from the bright visitations of childhood fireflies to the howls of a dog hotel, from the songs of Siena to a Salvadoran mother-in-law, from the harvest of heat to the history of color, from beloved writers to the act of reading slow, Kephart repeatedly reinvents the form in search of the truest telling. Original illustrations by William Sulit accompany the text, launching each of the six sections with unforgettable characters.

You Are Not Vanished Here is a master class in heart and form.

Beth Kephart is the award-winning author of more than three-dozen books in multiple genres, an award-winning teacher of memoir, co-founder of Juncture Workshops, co-founder of Bind Arts, and a paper artist whose work has appeared in Print magazine (online) and What Women Create, among other places. Recent books include My Life in Paper: Adventures in Ephemera (Temple University Press) and Wife Daughter Self: A Memoir in Essays (Forest Avenue Press). You Are Not Vanished Here is her first essay collection. More at bethkephartbooks.com

William Sulit is an award-winning artist working in multiple media. He is co-founder of Juncture Workshops and Bind Arts. The pieces presented in these pages are original oil paintings elaborated with digital collage. More at bind-arts.com