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The Devastation, a performance novel or poem, is based on the fallibility of a single image: a sea-wreck in language, the lovers on the floor of the sea, a sea of poetry, current, currency, connection—the world. How do we value "impoverished speech" or try to find abundance in impoverishment? A narrative that stems from "an image that is never exhausted" whose affect pervades the function of the whole, The Devastation is a lyric exploration of relation and community.

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"Melissa Buzzeo delivers language from its hidden sources and outer fringes with extraordinary poignancy and precision."--Avital Ronell

"The Devastation confronts both what is "left to say" after dystopian collapse and who is "left to say" -- the subject that tells the tale."--Maria Damon "Los Angeles Review of Books"

The Devastation

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      Publisher: Nightboat Books
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 19/02/2015
      ISBN13: 9781937658250, 978-1937658250
      ISBN10: 1937658252

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The Devastation, a performance novel or poem, is based on the fallibility of a single image: a sea-wreck in language, the lovers on the floor of the sea, a sea of poetry, current, currency, connection—the world. How do we value "impoverished speech" or try to find abundance in impoverishment? A narrative that stems from "an image that is never exhausted" whose affect pervades the function of the whole, The Devastation is a lyric exploration of relation and community.

      Trade Review

      "Melissa Buzzeo delivers language from its hidden sources and outer fringes with extraordinary poignancy and precision."--Avital Ronell

      "The Devastation confronts both what is "left to say" after dystopian collapse and who is "left to say" -- the subject that tells the tale."--Maria Damon "Los Angeles Review of Books"

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