Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead
shortlisted for the 2024 stella prize
$29.60
- Paperback
170 pages
- Release Date
2 January 2023
Summary
Abandon Every Hope: A Thanatography of the Slaughterhouse
Abandon Every Hope mournfully investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse and a world motivated by profitable death, to ultimately ask- where does this horror begin and how can it end?
Can anyone smell the suffering of souls? Of sadness, of hell on earth? Hell, I imagine, has a smell that bloats into infinity. Has a nasty sting of corpses. What was it Dante wrote?
Abandon Every Hope is a lament, an eleg…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780645536997 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0645536997 |
| Author: | Hayley Singer |
| Publisher: | Upswell Publishing |
| Imprint: | Upswell Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 170 |
| Release Date: | 2 January 2023 |
| Weight: | 202g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 151mm x 13mm |
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About The Author
Hayley Singer
Hayley Singer writes essays about literature and ecologies, queer embodiment and activism, multispecies in/justices and on reading and writing as worlds end and begin again. Her writing has been published in Sydney Review of Books, The Lifted Brow, The Monthly, Cordite Poetry Review, and more. She teaches creative writing at the University of Melbourne. This is her first book.
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