PLEASURE
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PLEASURE

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PLEASURE

About this book

PLEASURE is a book-length poem which muses on the phenomenology of solitude in a pastoral landscape, written in a diaristic, lyric mode, where the queer "I" alternately savors the decadence of isolation and stands at the precipice of despair. A travelogue in verse, PLEASURE takes place in Syros, the Greek island to which author Angelo Nikolopolous travels a few weeks after the discovery of his mother's brain tumor. These intertextual, elliptical explorations of solitude and sensuality interweave images of seaside roaming, secluded town life, and ephemeral sexual encounters with the ubiquitous implication of deathā€”the waning summer, the ill, perhaps dying, mother. Staring down true disconnectionā€”both physical and psychic orphanhood ā€”Nikolopoulos writes about the thrill and sadness of turning your back against the world and those in it only to rediscover that which tethers all to human experience: the quotidian, singular pleasures of having a body.

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Publisher
Four Way Books
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781954245082
eBook ISBN
9781954245150
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
American Poetry
Index
Literature

CONTENTS

Hermoupolis Port: Arrival Scene
A Type of Luxury
Beyond Language
Balcony Scene
SOS
A Knowable Thing
In the Murk
The Pleasure
SOS
From the Field
The Edge
SOS
Your Own Hysteria
Part of It
Where It Ended
SOS
Beyond Ba...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Hermoupolis Port: Arrival Scene
  6. A Type of Luxury
  7. Beyond Language
  8. Balcony Scene
  9. SOS
  10. A Knowable Thing
  11. In the Murk
  12. The Pleasure
  13. SOS
  14. From the Field
  15. The Edge
  16. SOS
  17. Your Own Hysteria
  18. Part of It
  19. Where It Ended
  20. SOS
  21. Beyond Babylon
  22. Bursting Through
  23. A Silky Attitude
  24. SOS
  25. What We Love
  26. The Men Watch
  27. SOS
  28. Before They Die
  29. Toward Union
  30. Who Tells the Story
  31. SOS
  32. I Have Looked
  33. SOS
  34. Even Electric Eels
  35. The Instant
  36. SOS
  37. This Closed Curtain
  38. California Gold
  39. In the Dark
  40. Behind the Black
  41. SOS
  42. Sing the End
  43. Consider My Loves
  44. I Believe the Relics
  45. Go On
  46. That Loud
  47. Body Archive
  48. SOS
  49. The Most Secret Part
  50. Low Fire
  51. SOS
  52. Hermoupolis Port: Departure Scene
  53. About the Author

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