Hush: A Fugue

by Dominique Hecq

Dominique Hecq writes through dulled topographies of mourning, avowing death is a "singular fear of finitude against a background of black light." Autobiographical, and sharply particular, Hush takes readers into an abyss where "grief is a caesura" and loss means "being hostage to a ghost." But this book is not only a poignant elegy to "losing your mother tongue and cracking your own voice"; Hush is also an incandescent lament from an "un / harmed"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1742589472
• ISBN13: 9781742589473
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: University of Western Australia Press
• Length: 78 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.3"