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Pleasure

Pleasure

Nikolopoulos, Angelo

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ISBN10: 1954245084
ISBN13: 9781954245082
Publisher: Four Way Books
Published: Feb 15 2022
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

PLEASURE is a book-length poem which muses on the phenomenology of solitude in a pastoral landscape, written in a diaristic, lyric mode, where the queer I alternately savors the decadence of isolation and stands at the precipice of despair. A travelogue in verse, PLEASURE takes place in Syros, the Greek island to which author Angelo Nikolopolous travels a few weeks after the discovery of his mother's brain tumor. These intertextual, elliptical explorations of solitude and sensuality interweave images of seaside roaming, secluded town life, and ephemeral sexual encounters with the ubiquitous implication of death--the waning summer, the ill, perhaps dying, mother. Staring down true disconnection--both physical and psychic orphanhood --Nikolopoulos writes about the thrill and sadness of turning your back against the world and those in it only to rediscover that which tethers all to human experience: the quotidian, singular pleasures of having a body.

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