Touch to Affliction

by Nathalie Stephens

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552451755
• ISBN13: 9781552451755
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Coach House Books
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.8" x 8.6"