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Etel Adnan Shifting the Silence

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English

Expected delivery time 14-30 days

Book information

Nightboat Books

USA

2020

Paperback

88

Standard

319539

978-1-64362-030-5

1-64362-030-4

Poetry by individual poets

Annotation

Shifting the Silence does just that, breaks the social taboo around writing and speaking about our own deaths. In short unrelenting paragraphs, Adnan enumerates her personal struggle to conceptualize the breadth of her own life at 95, the process of aging, and the knowledge of her own inevitable death. The personal is continuously projected outwards and mirrored back through ruminations on climate catastrophe, California wildfires, the on-going war in Syria, planned missions to Mars, and the view of the sea from Adnan’s window in Brittany in a poignant often painful interplay between the interior and the cosmic.

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