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Touch To Affliction by Nathalie Stephens. Touch To Affliction 4. Touch to Affliction is a text of ruins: At once lament, accusation and elegy, this work articulates the crumbling of buildings, the evisceration of language, the inhumanity that arises from patrie. Acclaimed poet Nathalie Stephens walks among these ruins, calling out to those b Touch to Affliction is a text of ruins: Acclaimed poet Nathalie Stephens walks among these ruins, calling out to those before her who have contemplated atrocity: In the end, this work considers what we are left with — indeed, what is left of us — as both participants in and heirs to the twentieth century.
Touch to Affliction is political but never polemical.
It lives at the interstices of thought and the unnameable. It is a book for our times. Paperback , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Touch To Affliction , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Inspiring and provoking the imagination Stephens: Feb 17, Joe rated it liked it Shelves: More of a book long sequence than a collection of poems.
There are some blistering, intriguing passages: City is stone, yes, but it is stone that is worn. It is skin that falls away from bone.
Sign-up or sign-in to rate this book. No, cancel Yes, report it Thanks! Some of Stephens's work has been translated into Basque, Bulgarian and Slovene. Pearl Pirie rated it really liked it Sep 22, Why the Sea Is Salt.
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From the ruins of poetry, fiction and philosophy comes Touch To Affliction, a meditation on the notion of homeland, on patrie and the inhumanity that arises from. Touch to Affliction is a text of ruins: ruins of genre, of language, of the city, of the body, of the barbarism of the twentieth century. At once lament, accusation and.
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