Poetry
Nearly Terminal
- Publisher
- DC Books
- Published
- April 2019
- Pages
- 100
- Price
- $18.95
- ISBN
- 9781927599495
- Language
- English
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Nearly Terminal resonates with a sense of foreboding at what may be seen as the social collapse of the individual self in a society that is being “whitened out.” Incorporating and intertwining aspects of the personal love relationship with a sense of a self under scrutiny, by itself and an imagined Other, the focus becomes one of loss, solitude, and the existential sense of being in a vast universe that is defined by traces of life increasingly lived as forms of abstraction within a virtual, disembodied reality. With a younger audience in mind, with poetic diction that is not afraid to be bold and experimental in its statements and claims, and with a delicate use of techniques evoking lacunae and erasure to convey the unanswerability of some basic existential questions, Eleni Zisimatos presents a bleak and uncertain view of the world.
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