Lividity

by Kim Rosenfield

Poetry. In LIVIDITY, poet Kim Rosenfield works within the outskirts of language, draining it of connotation and excess. Using words and phrases culled from linguistics textbooks and language-learning manuals, Rosenfield invites the reader to experience everyday vernacular as dislocated affect. What happens when language acts as organ donor? When language, the conveyor of our vulnerability, is transposed into new and often failing terrain? Are expressions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934254371
• ISBN13: 9781934254370
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Les Figues Press
• Length: 171 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 4.2" x 9.1"