I Imagined It Empty — Ruth Lauer Manenti. Published by RM/PHREE/Ediciones Posibles.
Ruth Lauer Manenti’s I Imagined it Empty contains in it a risk. The book defines a still time defined by grief from the loss of her mother. The images remind one of charcoal drawings, delicate and spare enough to bring to mind Giorgio Morandi, illumining the space. The risk is in the grace of the images. Grace can verge on sentimentality. Adeptly evading this pitfall, I Imagined it Empty is firmly placed in eloquence.
Terri Weifenbach lives and works in Burgundy, France. After her first book, In Your Dreams, was published by Nazraeli Press in 1997, she has authored more than twenty books. Terri’s most recent book, Cloud Physics (2021), is published by The Ice Plant, USA, and Atelier EXB, Paris, France. She has exhibited in the US, Europe, Japan, and Korea and received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2015.