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After a Short Illness: A Meditation on Aphasia
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ISBN10: 1918628157
ISBN13: 9781918628159
Publisher: Broken Sleep Books
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.10
Height: 0.08 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781918628159
Publisher: Broken Sleep Books
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.10
Height: 0.08 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
After a Short Illness is John Whitehouse's meditation on aphasia, written from the aftermath of a stroke that almost severed his speech. The poems work in short, image-dense stanzas that measure the distance between talk and utterance, moving between hospital wards, a brother's death, and the task of giving names to animals. Whitehouse finds company among others estranged from language, Zazetsky writing his way back from a head wound and Baudelaire silenced in an asylum, and what accumulates is less lament than an account of language repossessed word by word.
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