Nathalie Stephens's Touch to Affliction is similar to There by Roy Miki (see review here); however Stephens is more successful at marrying the poetic and political together. Although the book suffers from a similarly joyless approach, Stephens pays much more attention to craft, sentence by sentence. There's a surrealism and imagism in the background of Stephens' [...]
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Published on August 29, 2018 05:48