Reparative Craft

“Jason Edwards offers a sophisticated, meticulously researched, and deeply thoughtful picture of the warp and weft of textile as an organizing metaphor and a committed practice of artmaking for Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Reparative Craft makes a surprising contribution to Sedgwick’s ideas and to the history of fiber, unfolding as a story of living, making, and thinking that reorients queer theory’s relationship to art.” - David J. Getsy, author of Queer Behavior: Scott Burton and Performance Art

“With exemplary finesse, Jason Edwards ties together the multiple strands of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s life and work in sumptuous knotted clusters; rarely have I read a work of criticism so loving and perspicacious in its approach to the treasurable enigma of how and why a writer turns into an artist. Sedgwick’s passionate relation to the magical objects she made receives lucid, detailed memorialization in this brilliantly written book.” - Wayne Koestenbaum, author of My Lover, the Rabbi