Reculer pour Mieux Sauter is a mixed-genre nonfiction work by poet/artist Anne-Marie Levine, re-constructing a complex family history in recovered scraps. Assembling photographs, documents, newspaper clippings, emails, quotations, and original text, the book is a searching project about memory and narrative, where the immensely personal is confronted by the forceful hand of history. Early on there is an uncle lost to the sinking of the Titanic. Years later, after so much, a second uncle becomes the last casualty of the Belgian forces while ferrying planes home in the weeks following WW II. As Levine traces the course of several lives in the fragments that remain, the many traumas of the time find their voice in the poetic detail of a stream-of-consciousness scrapbook.

Reculer pour Mieux Sauter is volume 1 of 12, and has been designed by Project Projects