Effacement

by Elizabeth Arnold

"In this remarkable new book, Elizabeth Arnold focuses on what certain bodies undergo against forces that efface them. Physical law has it that 'what pokes out gets hit.' Limbs, noses, and jaws are blown off. There are mastectomies. Prosthetic reconstruction is 'flesh displaced.' Some of those who experience it learn that there is now between them and the ones they love a wall of canceled desire. 'One can adjust to this, they say, but not // from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 098195202X
• ISBN13: 9780981952024
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Flood Editions
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 8.4"