Tragodía 1

Hardcover with dustjacket, 430 pagesDimensions: 6.25" x 9.5" x 1.25" ISBN-13: 978-1-934254-18-9Cover price: $45 (hardcover) / $25 (paperback) In legal settings, the goal of a statement of facts is not to put forward an argument, but rather to present factual information clearly and comprehensively. That said, many lawyers make implicit arguments in a statement of facts, using a variety of tricks to sway the reader to one point of view or another. So begins the first of Vanessa Place's three-volume series Tragodía. In narrative form, Place, an attorney, represents real appellate briefs as poetry. A tour de force of conceptual writing, Statement of Facts looks at fact and truth and demands they distinguish themselves from one another.