Annie G. Rogers
Writer, Psychoanalyst, Printmaker
Annie G. Rogers, Ph.D. is currently a supervising and teaching Analyst at the Lacan School of Psychoanalysis.
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She is a printmaker, bookmaker, and member of Zea Mays Printmaking in Florence, Massachusetts.
Retired now as an academic, for many years she taught graduate and undergraduates as Associate Professor at Harvard University and as Professor at Hampshire College.
She has written and published fiction and poetry, alongside her academic and clinical writing.
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Her novel, After Words, 2024, was published by Austin-Macauley.
If you are interested in psychoanalysis or consultation, please understand that I seldom take new cases. You may find another Lacanian analyst through the Lacan School of Psychoanalysis website.
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If you are interested in buying a print, please visit my Flat Files here at Zea Mays Printmaking.
New Book
After Words: A Novel
Annie G. Rogers
After Words revolves around a card game played by five old friends on a long train journey from Chicago to Seattle. Devised by one of them (with original artwork and coding), the game is the route to revealing lived experiences they had never spoken. Drawing a card that corresponds to a letter, each player chooses a word that sparks a life story, though the prompt word is never revealed. No questions, comments, or interpretations are allowed.
With each turn, players and readers listen carefully to try to guess the word prompt. In the second section of the book the reader encounters portraits of each of the friend’s lives during the pandemic. The chapters depict a day and a night in each life – including a dream – that harkens back to the stories told in the first train ride, details that reveal further layers of meaning and possibility.
Emerging from the Covid pandemic in 2022, the friends commit to a second train journey from Montreal to Halifax, moved by the death of the game’s inventor and the impact of the original exchanges facilitated by the card game. There are three sections to the novel – Point of Origin, During the Pandemic, Aprés Coup - and a short epilogue, a promise to continue such train journeys with a next generation of friends.
reviews
After Words is a subtle wonder. Annie Rogers has created an exquisite puzzle of a novel that unfolds with poetic precision and the mysterious and transporting logic of a dream. Reading it, I was rapt; I did not want to wake up.
– Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness
A deck of bespoke playing cards, used in an invented word game, is central in this deeply poetic novel. Rogers’ skillful etchings, lithographs, monoprints and paintings grace the cards in After Words. These images, ranging from delicately depicted animals to mysterious portals, can’t help but serve as evocative catalysts for the characters’ story telling.
At first disconcerting (since they are not the traditional symbols on playing cards) they challenge our assumptions, shift our perceptions, and invite the reader into a world of imagination and dreams, where anything is possible.
– Liz Chalfin, Artist Printmaker
Founder of Zea Mays Printmaking, Florence, MA
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