Romance or the end : poems /
Romance or The End takes up the tools of romantic narrative in order to perform the rupture between self and story that occurs at the onset of trauma. Using known and pathologized literary arcs, Elaine Kahn unspools the fundamental instability of truth, love and language to create an experiential po...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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New York :
Soft Skull,
[2020]
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Edition: | First Soft Skull edition. |
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Summary: | Romance or The End takes up the tools of romantic narrative in order to perform the rupture between self and story that occurs at the onset of trauma. Using known and pathologized literary arcs, Elaine Kahn unspools the fundamental instability of truth, love and language to create an experiential portrait of narrative's power to both disfigure and restore. |
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Physical Description: | xix, 118 pages ; 21 cm. |
ISBN: | 9781593765842 1593765843 |