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Heather Christle

Critical Essays

Heather Christle’s Portrait of Crying
ByMiyako Pleines February 15, 2024June 3, 2024

Heather Christle’s 2019 book is a beautiful study of one of humanity’s most universal experiences, its fragments acting as tear drops that, when collected, turn it into one very good, very emotional cry.

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Critical Essays

The Artful Arrangement of 300 Arguments, Heating & Cooling, and The Crying Book
BySarah Appleton Pine July 13, 2022August 20, 2025

Sarah Manguso, Beth Ann Fennelly, and Heather Christle show that what may at first look like fragments are instead distillations of memories, emotions, and experience—made stronger by their brevity and turned into something whole through their painstaking arrangement.

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