Touch To Affliction
1st Edition
Published on 30. September 2002
40 pages
978-1-77056-226-4 (ISBN)
Description
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 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 before her who have contemplated atrocity: Martin Buber, Henryk Grecki, Simone Weil. 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.
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Nathalie Stephens
Touch To Affliction
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11/2002
Coach House Books
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Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Le Poème Affligé
- My Thigh Grew a City
- Not Paris
- Finitude Lamentation
- Broyer as with Centuries or Meat
- We Are Accountable for What We Aren't Told
- The Scarceness of the Body Architecture's Scorn
- NOS LANGUES SONT INCOMMENSURABLES ET MEURTRIÈRES
- Notes and Acknowledgements
- About the Author
