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Harm

Harm

Gravendyk, Hillary

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1890650560
ISBN13: 9781890650568
Publisher: Omnidawn
Published: Apr 1 2012
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Offering a new narrative of physical body constituted in perilous scenes of contact, Harm performs the loss of that fictive division between a unified body and its surrounding world. Terrifying and unlooked- for harmonies emerge in these poems, which dwell in a medicalized landscape where both the body and the land are monitored and laid bare. Troubling the idea of cure by recasting it in the terms of harm, Harm shifts between warning and error, nature and the body. In the sense of Baudelaire's correspondences, bloodclots externalize into sunclots and the air is rusty with blood. The book troubles the idea of cure by casting it also as a form of harm itself. Moving amid the prose poem and the lyric, Harm navigates a landscape of extremity both frightening and filled with wonders.

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