Memoirs of an Almost Expedition by Barbara Schott

By Barbara Schott

In Memoirs of a nearly excursion, Barbara Schott peels again the outside of language to bare its musculature, its bone. She additionally peels again the surface of family, the intimate rub of self opposed to self, to discover either nice longing and nice loss. Schott marks how the guts bends to phrases, bends itself with phrases, in her poetic "novel" "Archipelago" her remarkable series "hymens" and in every one discrete poem during this gorgeous book.

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