Three Excerpts from "Autobiography of a Book"
Glenn Ingersoll
Author's Note: "Autobiography of a Book" is the story of a book willing itself into existence. Every word "Book" presents brings it closer to its dream -- its dream, that is, of being what it claims to be, a real, honest-to-goodness book. I struggle with how to characterize "Book." Is it fiction? There's nothing fictional in it. Everything 'Book' says happened. It looks like prose, so it must be. But it does read a bit like poetry. Perhaps it is most properly classified as a collection of personal essays, the personal essays of someone whose person is no more (somehow more?) than those essays. I call myself not the author of "Book" but the one who took down what "Book" said, the one who transcribed the book's insistent voice.
Glenn Ingersoll works for the Berkeley Public Library where he hosts Clearly Meant, a reading & interview series. He has two chapbooks, City Walks (broken boulder) and Fact (Avantacular). He keeps two blogs, LoveSettlement and Dare I Read. Recent work has appeared in Courtship of Winds, Visitant, and Hawaii Pacific Review.
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