Nearly Terminal

By Eleni Zisimatos

Nearly Terminal resonates with a sense of foreboding at what may be seen as the social collapse of the individual self in a society that is being 'whitened out.' Incorporating and intertwining aspects of the personal love relationship with a sense of a self under scrutiny, by itself and an imagined Other, the focus becomes one of loss, solitude, and the existential sense of being in a vast universe that is defined by traces of life increasingly lived as forms of abstraction within a virtual, disembodied reality. With a younger audience in mind, with poetic diction that is not afraid to be bold and experimental in its statements and claims, and with a delicate use of techniques evoking lacunae and erasure to convey the unanswerability of some basic existential questions, Eleni Zisimatos presents a bleak and uncertain view of the world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1927599490
• ISBN13: 9781927599495
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: DC Books
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 8.0"