Homo Vitruvius by A. Jay Adler

Homo Vitruvius by A. Jay Adler

Hot Town (Summer 1967)

A form of memory

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A. Jay Adler
Feb 01, 2024
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In the rain in Tompkins Square Park. 1967. (James Jowers/George Eastman Museum/Flickr - Library of Congress/Indicommons, “no known restrictions.”)

*Forms of memory, or memory forms, emerge from a purposeful blend of memoir, creative nonfiction, and autofiction. The aim is to sculpt, out of the lived material of a life, artful form; to represent the life’s spiritual and bodily truth and at the same time serve the aim of art to seek truth beyond a single, ephemeral appearance in the world. Memory forms may be long or short, even to the brevity of vignette, such as here.

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